- Oct 1, 2019
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Hi,
As a student you have to make choices. After having worked during holiday I combined a good intention (I am Dutch so may translate things not correctly) to stop playing games cold-turkey wiith spending more time to study. So I gave my power desktop to my brother and tried to spend my saved money wisely (my phone was also broken).
In a second hand shop I found a Thinkpad Edge 15 inch which was broken, which set me back 50 euro''s. Obviously the harddisk was gone, but the battery was near dead also (only 17% capacity) left. So I bargained a little with the seller and he said that I could select one of the old working harddisk for 25 euro. I found a Seagate Hybrid 250 GB HD with a 8 GB write through read cache. With some luck I found another 2 GB RAM memory module which fitted in the Lenevo Edge, so for a total of 80 euro's I bought this old hardware.
With the money saved I bought a nice Samsung Galaxy A70 to replace my broken down Microsoft Nokia 940 (oh what a great OS it was). I had bought a Microsoft to keep me focused during classes and not float away spending time on social media (the lack of apps was an advantage for me). Having used the Windows phone for the last four years, I am confident I have no ' like me desire' like
many of my mates.
With this old Manjaro Desktop I sort of detach myself from gaming (it s okay to research the internet and write documents, make presentatons and present data in spreasheets for study) and hope to achive my STOPtober goal this year. I will be lurking mostly on this forum also, so don't expect me to involve heavily in help with Manjaro setttings (I need my time for practice and final presentation).
Regards Lenny Linux
As a student you have to make choices. After having worked during holiday I combined a good intention (I am Dutch so may translate things not correctly) to stop playing games cold-turkey wiith spending more time to study. So I gave my power desktop to my brother and tried to spend my saved money wisely (my phone was also broken).
In a second hand shop I found a Thinkpad Edge 15 inch which was broken, which set me back 50 euro''s. Obviously the harddisk was gone, but the battery was near dead also (only 17% capacity) left. So I bargained a little with the seller and he said that I could select one of the old working harddisk for 25 euro. I found a Seagate Hybrid 250 GB HD with a 8 GB write through read cache. With some luck I found another 2 GB RAM memory module which fitted in the Lenevo Edge, so for a total of 80 euro's I bought this old hardware.
With the money saved I bought a nice Samsung Galaxy A70 to replace my broken down Microsoft Nokia 940 (oh what a great OS it was). I had bought a Microsoft to keep me focused during classes and not float away spending time on social media (the lack of apps was an advantage for me). Having used the Windows phone for the last four years, I am confident I have no ' like me desire' like
many of my mates.With this old Manjaro Desktop I sort of detach myself from gaming (it s okay to research the internet and write documents, make presentatons and present data in spreasheets for study) and hope to achive my STOPtober goal this year. I will be lurking mostly on this forum also, so don't expect me to involve heavily in help with Manjaro setttings (I need my time for practice and final presentation).
Regards Lenny Linux
