[PLUG] Spotted on reddit via IRC

[Russell Senior]

On 3/21/25 21:09, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> The biggest problem with old laptops is the batteries - I have seen many laptops over the years end up scrapped because the batteries wore out and replacements were more expensive then the value of the laptop.  Many times people who just keep running the laptop with the dead battery off a power adapter, end up destroying the dead battery worse until it shorts out and then prevents the laptop from booting - or fries it.

My experience with the PLUG Clinic wasn't primarily about installing 
linux on old laptops. The people who came were mostly people who already 
knew and liked linux, but who had encountered some problem they didn't 
know how to get out of and needed some help. Clinic volunteers would 
then work through the problems with them and hopefully send them home 
with a working machine. The standard announcement was:

   The Linux Clinic is this Sunday, 1-5pm. Bring your ailing systems or
   questions and we will try to help, or at least get you pointed in a 
useful
   direction.

I was only an infrequent participant in the last few years of the 
clinic, though. From what I could tell from the mailing list traffic, 
the last one might have been January 2020.


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Russell Senior
PLUG Volunteer
russell at pdxlinux.org