[ale] A modest proposal for the times

[William Bagwell]

On Monday, April 07, 2025 01:25:55 PM jon.maddog.hall--- via Ale wrote:
> I bought a fairly high-end Lenovo (not that model).   The main time the
> fans come on is when I am updating the kernel.   Otherwise it is
> completely silent.
> 
> Unfortunately with the new tariffs that 2K laptop will probably be over 3K.

Same with the wife's budget PowerSpec, very quite and never notice it. Not a 
gamer, but it was so much better and cheaper than anything aimed at office 
users. Apparently the home user desktop is dead... And when did they drop 
optical drives?

BTW your long post below was an interesting read!
-- 
William