They are fully comfortable with reckless profits. Corruption is just the price to pay.

My understanding is that most municipalities make the water safe enough to put back into the environment, but not to the point of making it potable.

I squeezed almost 25 years, the majority of my adult life, out of my old Dell desktop. It was my first 64-bit processor. It ran Fedora for a few years, then Ubuntu, then Windows 10 during the pandemic so that I could game, then back to Ubuntu before the SSD finally called it quits.

It saw one RAM upgrade, three HDD replacements/upgrades, and the SSD addition.

It was showing its age right up until the end.

It’s life is not over. I’m going to format the HDDs and make it a NAS until the drives or the board taps out.

The fact that I’ve recycled an Apple laptop, several HP laptops in the same span as my desktop is a true testament to their longevity.

You don’t need to be so explosive. Be more like Argon.

Na

The better quality is the key here. The shit made today are intentionally made to be replaced.

Pyrex is the best example. The old-school Pyrex logo means it’s made from really tough glass whereas the newer logo means it’s shit and will shatter when going from hot to cold (oven to countertop).