Friend of mine runs Linux on a 15 years old cheap consumer laptop, and it’s working smoothly for browsing.

Just try. There’s no risk and no costs trying. Have fun.

That’s in fact the point I was making, in this case about SSDs. Low prices don’t help with reliability as producers use the worse part of a production run for the cheaper brands (friend of mine works for a European based manufacturer of silicon chips, and he can tell stories about the finicky processes around that tiny stuff and how they try to make the most of it).

Your reading comprehension is a bit off - I didn’t write that I only read the title, I wrote that I commented on the title.

The rest of your rant is up to you.

Don’t be scared. Just don’t fall for posts which try to get the impossible. It’s not that difficult.

I commented on the title of your post - nobody with some knowledge in that field (as you claim to have) would phrase that question that way.

Be offended, I can’t change that - but pointing out the obvious may help others to not make the mistake of hoping that there’s cheap good.

There isn’t.

You mean “cheap or reliable”. And even with the better brands it’s always the question not if but when a device will fail.

Your comment made me giggle. Thanks for the fun!

Without gangsters on a motorbike?

Not credible.

or keep using it.

Know several people still using Win7 without batting an eye.

If it boots it’s good.

Thanks for translating. As a non native English speaker I nearly got a stroke trying to understand these… words.

It’s great. I eat boiled eggs with salt and a sweet toast all the time.

Which sequel of Terminator did I miss?

Even with an old school filament light bulb

The heat from those bulbs was used to keep the content over 0 degrees Celsius when the fridge got colder than the set temperature (e.g. very cold room in winter) to prevent the goods in the fridge from freezing.

That’s what I know about this topic. Valid for Germany, don’t know how this is handled in other parts of the world.

No, I didn’t know. And I still don’t.

Y’all americans in this thread?

“In the long run we are all dead.”

You read Harari, too, I guess. He tells a very convincing story.

I think you have a point.

I know you have a point, a good one, Lotteries cater to the vulnerable etc. - but you are wrong in one aspect: There are winners, in every lottery, and that’s what fuels the hope.

Even small chances are chances. It’s that simple ;)

Lotteries unique selling point is hope.