Doing the hermit-crab shuffle
Jul. 8th, 2020 02:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
brin_bellway(If you, like Mom, have no idea what I'm referring to when I use that metaphor, you can read about the hermit-crab shuffle here.)
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I'm getting a new laptop!
What's happening to my current laptop, you ask? Why, it's becoming Mom's laptop!
What's happening to Mom's current laptop, you ask? Why, it's becoming the TV's prosthetic brain!
What's happening to the TV's current prosthetic brain, you ask? Why, it's becoming Dad's ad-mining rig!
What's happening to Dad's current ad-mining rig, you ask? Well, *that* one is going in the bag of stuff to be taken to the electronics recycling depot, as it is only very marginally functional. (It's slow enough and Windows-XP enough that nobody would want to use it as an emergency spare, and if we need a system like that for pretty much anything else, we could emulate one.)
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I'm getting a new laptop!
What's happening to my current laptop, you ask? Why, it's becoming Mom's laptop!
What's happening to Mom's current laptop, you ask? Why, it's becoming the TV's prosthetic brain!
What's happening to the TV's current prosthetic brain, you ask? Why, it's becoming Dad's ad-mining rig!
What's happening to Dad's current ad-mining rig, you ask? Well, *that* one is going in the bag of stuff to be taken to the electronics recycling depot, as it is only very marginally functional. (It's slow enough and Windows-XP enough that nobody would want to use it as an emergency spare, and if we need a system like that for pretty much anything else, we could emulate one.)
