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I just faced the exact same problem, and for the first time in 37 years it was cheaper (by more than $200) to buy a full desktop from Dell than it would for me to build my own using the same or similar components, even using the old case, power supply, and video card.
There are no solutions, only trade-offs. - Thomas Sowell
A day can really slip by when you're deliberately avoiding what you're supposed to do.
- Calvin (Bill Watterson, Calvin & Hobbes)
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BUILD
Why ?...
CRAPWARE
Building your own, and paying the ransomware prices to Microsoft for the real deal with real disks and everything, is the single best way to be sure that you are really getting "Clean Windows". My own experience: it's about the only way.
Not to mention fifty different reasons for a disk going bad. It happens. (I learned last month)
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"In the Enlightenment, there was a conceptual world based on faith. And so Galileo and the late pioneers of the Enlightenment had a prevailing philosophy against which they had to test their thinking. You can trace the evolution of that thinking. We live in a world which, in effect, has no philosophy;"
Obviously ethnocentric historically.
Not even sure how it applies to the modern world.
There are about 1.3 billion Catholics today. So certainly there is some philosophical viewpoint. And during the Enlightenment and before that they were certainly doing their best to force those Christian variations on the world they knew about. Naturally the 'ethics' of the Enlightenment in that regard doesn't really seem like an ideal that one should strive for. And obviously Galileo as a specific example of a less than ideal example of that.
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For better or worse, the States of Europe had a philosophy which most of them agreed upon. They may have fought over the details (e.g. Catholic vs Protestant) but it acted as a guideline to their view of the world. Other parts of the world had their own philosophical guidelines (Islam, Taoism, Hinduism, etc.). All new ideas were tested against these philosophies, and those propounding ideas that countered them ran considerable risks.
Many people still have personal guidelines based on these philosophies, but philosophical guidelines do not appear to exist at the State level. Any risks run are purely pragmatic, e.g. opposing the current rulers has always been a dangerous activity.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: For better or worse, the States of Europe had a philosophy which most of them agreed upon
Yes but the tone of the article implied that this was therefor 'good' (vs 'evil') and thus better than now.
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Wordle 690 5/6
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Wordle 690 4/6*
⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
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That ... was not easy!
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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I got 4 letters on my first try, still took me 2 more attempts! 
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 690 6/6
⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
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⬜🟨🟨🟩⬜
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Wordle 690 4/6
🟩⬛⬛⬛⬛
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I went by esclusion but I passed upon this word at least a dozen times and failed to recognize it as a word 100% of times.
GCS/GE d--(d) s-/+ a C+++ U+++ P-- L+@ E-- W+++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
The shortest horror story: On Error Resume Next
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In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 690 3/6
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Down to two possibilities after starters, and guessed right for a change.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Well done getting that in three Peter
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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Wordle 690 5/6
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⬜⬜⬜🟩⬜
🟨🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
Difficult set of letters.
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Wordle 690 3/6*
🟨🟨🟨⬜🟨
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Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
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Wordle 690 4/6
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Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Wordle 690 5/6
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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#Worldle #473 1/6 (100%)
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https://worldle.teuteuf.fr
easy one
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Anyone hear from our master of ammunition and all things that go bang lately?
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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No idea, I would say at least 3 months without seeing a message by him
EDIT: CP Search says his last message was October 22, more than half a year... 
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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I thought he said he was close to retirement, maybe he's shooting, fishing, driving his Mustang, and saying to hell with everything else?
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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He's re-loading.
"They have a consciousness, they have a life, they have a soul! Damn you! Let the rabbits wear glasses! Save our brothers! Can I get an amen?"
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