<div dir="ltr">great to hear you had some good news come through. We could all use some good news from time to time. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 3:44 PM Leam Hall via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">I have a couple stacks of boxes in my home office, the results of a new desktop build.<br>
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Back in early December I started the "Back to the new desktop question". That's not really the full story though, I had started the same conversation back in August of 2020. There was probably another time or two as well, I tend to come up with the idea to build a desktop, and then chicken out. Partly because I think in money scarcity, partly because things have changed so much and I learn slowly.<br>
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This time I came close to backing out again, and then someone from the list asked if I'd be interested in a slightly used motherboard, CPU, and RAM. My assumption was that even a decent used price would be more than my brain wanted to pay. Turns out the asking price was "pay for a box, and shipping". If not for such a generous offer, I would have probably backed out and stayed with my Dell from Goodwill.<br>
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So much of the daily news is bad, I wanted to share something good. I really appreciate the hardware, and all the advice everyone has provided.<br>
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Leam<br>
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