Turn & Burn…
After several years on helpdesk, a technician is bound to start turning over old gear. Sometimes, it’s a decade-old workstation with obsolete hardware (like the 2010 ThinkPad T510 that Punkfairie turned into a Windows XP nostalgiatory). Sometimes it’s a perfectly good thin client system, complete with x64 processor and NVME hard disk, that has been written off as garbage. Every now and then, you even get a near-mint last-gen laptop with modern parts that someone decided was easier to keep in a drawer than use for their job. What else to do with these dozens of operable computers besides refurbish and redistribute them to extend life and slow the gears of production? At my current workplace, I have access to 3 main types of machines: thin client desktops; thin client laptops; and full system laptops. Thin Client Desktops Thin client desktops are the hardest to find use-cases for. Lately, I’ve been working with Lenovo m625’s with 2-core AMD A4-9120e processors and 8GB RAM. They have the…