Now that Moore's law has reached it's end, we no longer replace our desktop machines every 2 years to get a newer model that is twice as fast, with twice the st

Now that Moore's law has reached it's end, we no longer replace our desktop machines every 2 years to get a newer model that is twice as fast, with twice the storage (or more). It is, in fact, reasonable to keep a machine for a decade now. If you don't host internet accessible services locally, and don't offend any nation states or billionaires, it's reasonably possible to run quite old software behind a NAT box without grief. Know that something might come along and infect your machine, plan for it, make and test backups, and you should be good to go. Tools should last for a lifetime, and the computer (and it's software) is just a tool. It's time to re-normalize buying something for life.