Heinz Schmitz <
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mechanic wrote:
On Tue, 4 May 2021 14:46:06 +0100, Jeff Layman wrote:
In Europe have a look here if you want a laptop:
<https://laptopwithlinux.com/>
Any of those with Win10 will cost extra.
These are nice, and the NUCs on the site are too.
As most anybody nowadays will throw away their equipment as
soon as a trace of dust is visible on it, ebay is a good source for components, if you avoid to fall prey to a junk-seller. Much money
to be saved thus, and still usable parts rescued from the dump.
Regards,
H.
I have a friend who is an old boss of mine and he would spend a
quarter million dollars on ebay and get about 3 million dolars worth
of test equipment. Then he would build a lab, develop a product,
then sell the business and do it all over again. Did it about three
times I know of alone. He also buys houses and tears it down except
for one wall, then builds a mansion around it. He bought a 2600 sq
ft house in Virginia with about an acre and a half. He brought in
600 loads of fill for the back yard to make it slope easily down to
the creek. He put in a well and a buried propane vessel. He turned
the house into a 7500 sq ft mansion with Cherry floors and stairs and
Cherry everything and Chinese marble in all the wet spaces... 5
baths all with their own jucuzzi and shower and a sixth downstairs
where his HUGE office and conference room and Half million dollar RF
lab are (were) at.
It is for sale at 2.3 M. All the other houses in the area are in
the 2600 sq ft range. It dwarfs them. There are truly rich guy
houses just down the street though. Way out of our league. So funny
how so many of them make their houses look like castles with parapets
and such.
It costs him $40k a year just to keep it.
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