The ragged edge
I consistently run on the ragged edge of technology - the far end from the cutting edge. My phone is a 2016 Samsung J3V, but it works fine. My laptop is a hand-me-up from my nephew, a 2014 model that wouldn't play nice with Windows (but runs Ubuntu 18.04 fine). My wife's laptop is an old Macbook Pro, not sure what year but at least 5 years. Best one is my desktop - not top-of-the-line when built, and then when XP went end-of-life, I bought a new hard drive and upgraded the memory to 8GB. No other upgrades - running Ubuntu 18.04 fine ever since.
The biggest difference is the software. I thought Linux was pretty cool before I started running it every day - now it's a necessity. Why pay $200+ for an inferior OS, with constantly changing interface and constantly increasing hardware requirements, when I can have one that's more stable, more secure, and runs on cheaper hardware for free?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
