From Trash to Treasure

I found this computer beside our community's dumpster. I brought it home and realized it's an abandoned office pc as it came without hard drive. I slapped a 256GB microcenter SSD, and still did not boot. Swapped the ram and started working! However, it sometimes went through boot loops and I needed to change the time everytime I turned it on. I put a new CMOS battery and put Ubuntu on it, and voila a perfectly good PC. It has N3050 celeron processor and 8 GB ram. I use it to play retro games with retro-arch, and some media consumption with Ubuntu. I kept it connected to my living room TV for media and gaming. I also use sysDVR client on it to stream games from my nintendo switch lite. Overall, it is an excellent value for how much work I am able to do with it.

Cost:

Trash found Dell Pre-built with N3050 processor $0
8 GB DDR3L RAM $15.99
256 GB Inland SSD $24.99
CMOS Battery $1.5