Sounds like a good way to make use of old eMachines, at a large discount too.
Finally, the year of the Linux Desktop! (eMachine edition)
make use of old eMachines
eMachines was a brand of economical personal computers. In 2004, it was acquired by Gateway, Inc., which was in turn acquired by Acer Inc. in 2007. The eMachines brand was discontinued in 2013.
$20 is one hell of a price, considering how much time must have gone into this machine!
That depends on their setup.
Taking donated PCs to save them from e-waste. Hooking it up to a large KVM and running hardware diags then a image script to load OS, software and quick check for drivers and functionality...
Maybe 15-30 min labor if you're efficient and doing them in bulk.
... Yeah still a good deal haha.
I used to do this kind of work. With a wall of monitors mounted and PCs below. It was pretty chill and just needed to poke one when needed.
Heroes don't all wear capes!
No Capes!
No capes, for reason for reason, on Tux
This is useless. It's not even high enough spec to run your Electron calculator in a sandboxed container.
/s
These days I would pair that with Debian and IceWM
I'm troubled that my older hardware is way less power efficient doing the same tasks.
The most environmentally friendly computer is the one you already have. No power savings is so great as to offset the environmental cost of manufacturing of a new machine, shipping it to you, and the environmental impact of putting the existing machine into landfill. Run it into the ground until it either physically breaks or is literally no longer capable of performing the tasks you need. It's not an environmental gain to upgrade JUST for power efficiency.
The year of the Linux eDishwasher!
$20 👍
i guess the eMachines truly were never obsolete
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