Tuesday, December 6th, 2022

The best four chocolates of my life
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It's quite amusing: the total cost of my current desktop computer was
around $3500.  I got my current laptop  in exchange for 4 chocolates,
and I'm equally happy using both of them. 

Yes,  the desktop  is fully open-source  hardware  based on an 8C/32T
POWER9 CPU,  probably just a few hundred  of these are running around
the globe.  On the other hand the laptop is  an old 2C/2T Core2-based
ThinkPad x200s, but I'm as productive using the former as the latter.
Even the fact  that the first one has 64 GB of RAM and the second one 
has just 6 GB doesn't matter.

Because it's  all about  the software  I'm using:  simple WM,  shell,
editor,  cross-assembler,  emulators,  browser,  music  player,  etc. 
I don't  fancy  watching  UltraHD  movies  or playing  modern  games, 
so I'm good  with  almost any  hardware.  So I make  do with  what is 
available.  When I'm at home,  I power on  the mighty  desktop beast;
elsewhere I use the ThinkPad. No big difference whatsoever.

These simply were  the best four chocolates of my life,  worth almost 
$3500 in hardware for most tasks.
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