Good eye! $40 cash at a used office furniture shack in a shady part of town. Did I get a decent deal?
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It was the kind of place where the sales dude looks you up and down before telling you the price. And cash means no tax!
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Definitely! Beats anything else under $100. Easy to reupholster too if it comes to that.
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Realized I can use my UV curing station to do my nails, just need eye protection 
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bought a tiny pc off craigslist and while expecting the worst the only thing wrong with it is that despite having a valid embedded Windows key theyâd installed pirated Windows 10, I guess by force of habit lol
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to that end, how paranoid should I be about doing a clean install using Windows 10âs built-in âresetâ function? is it feasible to poison that stuff with malware or whatever?
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the install-windows-over-itself in place method is actually great if something breaks with your system install because it doesnât touch anything other than the core libraries but if I had just gotten a new machine I would reformat because otherwise itâll retain a bunch of the personâs data
I believe this person may have fitted a new SSD for the sale; they gave me the packaging for it, the windows install is from a few days ago and the SMART readout looks extremely healthy
EDIT: the self-reinstall also has a âscrubâ option since I last used it which Iâm led to believe deletes everything but windows then wipes free space, I used that and tbh Iâm not going to be snooping anyway
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actually this whole thing has taught me an interesting lesson: these old business desktops are probably a steal even without a hard drive because of the embedded windows license; those licenses arenât transferrible and the machines themselves seem to ask for less than the cost of a retail copy of windows 10 proâŚ
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it depends on how difficult windows gets to steal again in the future I guess, my main workstation that has creative cloud and microsoft office provided from work is definitely also pirated, primarily out of force of habit, but itâs shown as valid for the past 5 years whatever it is I did in the first place to make it work
I suppose, but I feel like nothing can really beat âwe donât even ask for the key because the computer already has itâ for convenience
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What do I do with my old computer tower thatâs not literally broken itâs just kind of shit
build another computer in it
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What do I do with all the shit inside it though
get another case for it
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if it can run modern windows and such you could donate it/the innards in a cheap case to somewhere which provides computers to families in need, those sorts of things seem to be all over the place
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This is the best possible scenario. If for some reason you canât find a place that is willing to take donations, honestly, just find your nearest electronics recycling location and dump it. I used to to be a pack rat when it came to computer parts, and itâs just not fucking worth it. Even if youâre the sort of person who likes to do hobby projects and make home servers, unless you have a concrete need in mind right then, get rid of it. Computer parts age so quickly these days, hanging onto stuff for more than a year or two just doesnât make sense. If youâre not the kind to build hobby machines, it makes even less sense.
If you think a particular part is still worth something, but you know you wonât use it again, sell it (or just give it) to a friend. My last two GPUs have been hand-me-downs from buds.
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youâll have to pry my HD 5770 and GTX 470 from my cold, dead hands
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I have to give intel credit, for the past like, 3-4 years every time they have a press conference itâs to announce absolute dog shit vaporware and yet they keep getting all this press for products that donât exist and yet are obviously worse than their competitorsâ
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