[ale] Stacks of boxes

[Jonathan Meek]

great to hear you had some good news come through. We could all use some
good news from time to time.

On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 3:44 PM Leam Hall via Ale <ale at ale.org> wrote:

> I have a couple stacks of boxes in my home office, the results of a new
> desktop build.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Leam
>
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