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On 21/6/19 11:44 pm, Felix Miata wrote: > Andrew McGlashan composed on 2019-06-21 20:03 (UTC+1000): > >> Most, if not all 32 bit arch machines are probably going to >> consume far more energy than newer machines of far greater >> capability. That is, it probably doesn't make any financial >> sense to continue running an old 32 bit machine. > > Retiring a working old PC requires an investment of not just money, > but also time, and possibly retraining. The old PC is a sunk cost, > and its user(s) may have no need for greater capability. Periodic > energy cost is probably trivial by comparison, so even if a new PC > uses a third or less energy than the old, the investment could take > more than a PC's lifetime to recover, assuming the required funding > of the cost was even available to make. e.g. $6.00/month for energy > to continue vs. $2.00 after investment nets only $48/year. A cheap > replacement, $500, would take more than 10 years to be paid for at > that rate, not counting anything for the time value of the money > invested, which could easily more than double the required time to > recover. IOW, it doesn't make any sense on a purely financial basis > to replace a working PC. Sure, it doesn't make sense for every case, but there are often other factors; in time one of those factors will be lack of support for i386, even if it isn't Debian itself. And there are other reasons, power usage is but one; sometimes just the risk of an older box dying and having no replacement is a more important consideration. Cheers A. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iHUEAREIAB0WIQTJAoMHtC6YydLfjUOoFmvLt+/i+wUCXQznPwAKCRCoFmvLt+/i +9a7AQDFcJg2omkpeEFr5bfeiaOSy0Jw7z8Z0zBqrWm3aHoZjgEAyey1qq5wOHSK skAcVTi0DeqGqgGUPPmGOoL345kFuaU= =68ey -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
