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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 15 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Families exist. I'm the "IT guy" for 3 people using laptops

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They are all my personal laptops from different parts of my past, that I just never threw away when I upgraded

[–] neblem@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If you keep forgetting them for another ~15-25 more years they might have value in the retro space.

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Shadow retirement fund

[–] Dran_Arcana@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

That's reasonable; I just wouldn't have called my wife's laptop my laptop I guess. It was either that or there was probably an interesting story behind it.