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My daughter bought an 18-year-old Dell Optiplex 960 with no operating system on eBay and asked me to install Linux Mint for her. I reluctantly agreed to keep the peace. But I was surprised anyone would sell such a machine with a hard drive. Well, it arrived today and the hard drive was so thoroughly wiped as to be invisible (i.e., it contains no hard drive). It also was poorly packed and arrived with the face plate broken loose, a dead cricket and a few pieces of broken plastic inside the case, and one of the memory cards dislodged. Even after reseating the memory card, there was still a hardware problem with the memory. At least it didn’t burst into flames when I plugged it in and tried booting it up. But I did remind myself where the fire extinguisher is located. Why am I doing this? Because my daughter has schizophrenia and is paranoid about AI, she wants hardware no newer than 2008, and I am trying to keep the peace. Why 2008? Your guess is as good as mine. #Schizophrenia #MentalHealth #Linux