I got a cheap 862D combo soldering iron from Amazon for $50 about 5 years ago. It goes down to 200°C.

Just remember to put it on a separate power strip and turn off the strip when you are done. These are super cheap, and I wouldn’t recommend leaving them plugged in unattended.

They won’t let me do it for for free. They think I’m doing bad things if I don’t charge for it.

Thanks for the list!

Looks amazing!

I was doing okay with 4-5 tabs on a core 2. Used Facebook as a test.

I can’t say how your firmware will recognize a PCI-e to NVME, but as long as your aren’t chasing boot time records a SATA SSD should be more than sufficient for boot. You could just use the NVME for speed.

Another option would be to set up 6 SATA SSD drives in there with ZFS2. The striping and read-write speeds should significantly fill the SATA buffer of 6gbps. Due to the striping, you might actually avoid filing the read buffer and be about to sustain a longer high write speed.

The drive farm is also super viable. I have a 6-port board and a SAS card installed giving me 10 or 14 ports, I can’t recall. I have a similar strategy as I described, but I’m only using it for a NAS. I looked into getting a 12-port board, but used it was still $350. It makes more sense for me to buy another SAS card instead.

Sandy bridge still has a little life in it. Most those systems top out at 8-16 GB memory, which is serviceable. You are probably missing out on NVME. The PCI version might also be a gotcha if you upgrade your video card, so double check the compatibility.

Finally, your previously-suggested video card may require new power connectors. While you might be able to find adapters, confirm that your are not approaching 80% of your PSU capability and upgrade if you are close. Power supplies degrade over time, so if you are at 65% it’s time to consider an upgrade on a 10yo PSU.

I’ll absofuckinglutely assist in providing an alternative.

Oh, devolve is a word, but I have only heard it used on procedural dramas to describe serial killers who stop following their patterns.

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Please send me some ideas! Free titles are better since I don’t have a library of older games. I was able to get Minecraft to a playable state, but Hollow Knight couldn’t do more than 4fps. I though Neverwinter might work since it was pretty old, but I only managed what appeared to be 1/4 fps. I’m running tests on a core 2 machine with an ATI Radeon HD4250, Fedora on a SSD, 6 GB of DDR 2.

The purpose is to spread the information to people who might be struggling with win 10 or older computers that can’t upgrade. I’m offering the Linux upgrade for $10 plus the cost of a SSD. I’m only posting to my Facebook crowd because I can’t do much for people who aren’t close.

I will gladly post on Lemmy if I keep going. We have until the test computer is sold. Then I am moving on to the pile of Optiplex 9010 computers I bought for testing.

Who knows what technology will bring us in 5 years. With SSDs, 15 year old machines are still functional for about everything but gaming.

I can hook you up right now with a solid Dell Optiplex 9010, your choice Windows or Linux, just $15.99 a month lease. If anything goes wrong with the hardware, we’ll send you a new one and you just ship the old one back.

*Not responsible for lost data due to failure to use proper backup strategies.

Remember this when people say everyone in government is culpable.

The article has that between the lines.

No, she needs it.

She’s a hobbyist photographer, so she does take many pics. I’m planning on setting her up with storage space on the NAS. Also, clearing her chart history was a big deal.

That’s why my wife wanted a new phone. It’s a s21+, so the only upgrades with more space are $$$. Anything free is the same size. We transferred her photos and it was full again in a month.

She had to go delete her old conversations to make significant space.

I was thinking of the no take only throw meme.

No therapy.

Only exercise.

I was going to argue with you, but I went to an arguably cultish church as a child.

Two of my closest friends from that little church never met here, but ended up transitioning to female and marrying in another state. I lost touch with them and found out after the fact.

Coincidence? I use Fedora.

I work in IT. People will often casually dump their hardware because it’s now working the way they want.