Thinking of Upgrading, Just Because

My current "daily driver" computer is an ATOPNUC Mini PC (not an affiliate link) with 8Gb of RAM, running (usually) Lubuntu.

It gets the job done (especially since discovering and correcting an unduly small swap file). I don't really need to replace it ... at the moment, anyway.

But I see that the TRIGKEY Micro Computer W11 Desktop (not an affiliate link) is on sale for about $120 (after a $50 coupon). It's got 16Gb of RAM, and its Intel Celeron N5095 CPU looks like it greatly outperforms the ATOPNUC's AMD A9-9400.

And I always operate on the assumption that I will eventually need more RAM and a better CPU to keep up with the various new crap the Internet throws at me, even though my work mostly runs to editing text and administering Wordpress sites.

So I'm considering getting ahead of the curve instead of waiting.

Then again, that ATOPNUC sells, today, for about $30 less than it did eight months ago. So if I wait, I might end up getting the TRIGKEY for even less than it costs at the moment (I hear that demand for PCs is down and that price cuts are ongoing).

I'll be mulling the decision for a little while, probably (but I have, of course, added the TRIGKEY to my Amazon Wish List in case someone wants to make that decision for me).

On the Third Day of NewListservProviderMas ...

... it looks like EmailOctopus (affiliate link!) is the new daily email edition vehicle for Rational Review News Digest.

The first daily edition via EmailOctopus went out this morning. Here's what it looked like. And here's where to become a (free! Only one message per non-holiday weekday and we never sell/rent/share your address!) subscriber if you're not already one.

Last night, I received notice from Mailchimp that "Your account has been reviewed and is now active for sending."

That ship has sailed, though (see the previous chapters of the saga here). I’m really not interested in risking our ability to deliver you your daily edition of the freedom movement’s daily newspaper to an outfit that takes us down for two days on the basis of an automated "said something we may not like" auditing system.

After eight years with Mailchimp, it looks like I'll experience a slight learning curve before formatting everything becomes second nature again. I'm OK with that.

Wordle 774 Hint

Hint: To make babies, in King James Version phrasing.

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First Letter: B