you'd be surprised to hear how many in this thread fall in that category. at the risk of sounding "back in my day"-ish, my first desktop as a kid was a refurbi

you'd be surprised to hear how many in this thread fall in that category. at the risk of sounding "back in my day"-ish, my first desktop as a kid was a refurbished server. i never used like its original intent, other than running xampp stack during occasional web dev. the "server" in question was actually an OG raspberry pi, which is still in service till date. that is all i could afford with space and money, and running it completely headless from day 1 had been a rollercoaster ride. aside: it has ironically become much harder to get hold of the latest pi despite a decade of developments.