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[โ€“] monovergent@lemmy.ml 9 points 3 days ago

6 years of using bottom-of-the-barrel laptops because I wanted to buy new. Not to mention the time wasted "optimizing" them, working around their quirks, and spending a whole day fitting a riveted-in keyboard that was never meant to be serviced. If I had the foresight to buy a used business-grade laptop for $200 when I started, I might as well have daily driven it to this day.