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Cake day: May 19th, 2024

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  • “New isn’t worth it” depends greatly on what you’re buying and where you live. The used car market has changed dramatically over the last 4-5 years. Around here at the low end of the market a 2 year old used car with 30kish miles is only ~15% cheaper than the same car brand new. The new car also comes with the full warranty, frequently some level of free regular service & loaners, not to mention no wear and tear. The days of a car losing 25+% of its value for merely being driven off the lot at sale time are long gone.



  • I successfully ran a modded java minecraft server for me and my friends for years on an ancient thinkstation with a xeon E5430 (quad core 2.6 ghz w/ddr3 ram) doing double duty as a NAS. That old xeon couldn’t carry your i5’s jock on single core performance, which is your main concern. As long as you’re not running huge kitchen sink packs with giant complex bases I think you’ll be fine.