On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 07:38:07PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote:
> Apple products and the Apple OS (currently based upon BSD) are
> proprietary.  If one needs service (hardware or software), one
> effectively must use an Apple store (at least in the USA).  The
> colleague is retired and has little money (this is the downward
> mobile USA economy save for the neo-liberal profiteers).  She got a
> used/refurb Lenovo Carbon X1 and I just installed a working Linux on
> it -- everything worked "out of the box".

I am sympathetic with people on fixed income. All of us heading in that direction.

But as the saying goes, a stingy person pays twice, a fool pays forever.

A frugal person would do a careful evaluation after assigning $$$ numbers
to the value of the data and to the number of hours spent (now and forever),
as balanced against the $$$ cost of hardware, software and services.

Cheapest solution may be a backblaze subscription. You never know until
you do the numbers.

You cannot have something for nothing, you have to spend real $$$ somewhere and
you should never value your time at $0/hour.

P.S. This would be $10 please. Payable to my paypal.

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Konstantin Olchanski
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