what have you done with your TrumpBux™?

Dietrich Six | Mythic Inconceivable!
 
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Excuse me, I'm full of dog poison
Got mine about a week ago, haven't done anything with it yet. Chances are that it'll mostly go to rent.
I have been thinking about building a new PC though.

Are PC components super expensive since the factories shut down
Honestly I haven't really looked into prices recently. Not since jan/feb-ish. But I'm looking at building a machine that can do GPU passthrough so I can primarily use linux but run a Win10 vm as though it were running natively. I like the idea better than dual booting, anyway.
i would try to wait until the factories are back up and running because new GPUs are going to come out that will, thanks to the new consoles, have significantly better price-to-performance over what's out now
It's not exactly something I'm in a rush to do anyway.

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I'm currently distracted with an assortment of old e-waste PCs I'm trying to come up with uses for that I was just recently given. One of them's a server that belonged to a business that got flooded so that's more just a project for tinkering and learning's sake. It's possible that only the motherboard needs replacing, looking at the water line, but there's no way to know for sure. Cool machine though, even though I'm not expecting any miracles from it.

Two others are just regular business computers, one I was going to turn into a home media / game emulator / local minecraft server for my roommate and I, and the other probably just a productivity machine. I was also given a 1st gen intel "compute stick" that supposedly overheats like a bitch but I'm probably just going to mess around for the novelty of it. Probably just experiment with lightweight distros. Don't really see much use for it besides that.

Laptops- one's my main computer, one's a chromebook that I put Gallium OS on for college, one I have LTSC on that I pretty much just use for torrenting... and the last one is a Pinebook that isn't really getting used for anything right now. My main laptop is the most current piece of hardware but then it's still a 2015 model gaymer laptop, and I'm struggling with storage space and general inability to upgrade. So it'll be nice to go back to a proper modern desktop, but I'm mostly going to have to start from scratch.
can you please take my e waste? sitting on 2 dirty and neglected inkjets, a 5.1 sound system, macbook pro, lenovo, toshiba (do they even make laptops anymore?), an asus, and a dell netbook, and a dell all in one

already got rid of 3 towers before corona; one was a server

Bruh, send that 5.1 this way


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Spent it on a bit of everything tbh

Ran out faster than I would have liked though but I'm EsSeNtIaL so it doesn't really matter


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When you dont get the $15OO in stimulus because you're a student but you get $3OOO in CARES grant instead