One large consideration on this older hardware is electricity costs and efficiency. I mean they are definitely plenty useful for certain tasks but you might not want to pay to run a fleet of them 24/7 this becomes a larger concern for larger organizations. So it depends on what you want to do with it and your electricity access. If you are getting free/nearly free electricity or are paying for electric heat for your location anyway…
Is it the conversational style? or that search engines have been designed to be actively worse to keep your eyeballs spending more time looking at advertisements now?
Do you have other sources of retirement savings than the pension? What are your desired levels of spending relative to all sources? If you dream of walking around the local park and have a cup of tea looks a bit different from a dream of heading off traveling for 6 months out of the year. Is it possible to scale back to working part time? Change positions to something you want to do more? Retirement planning is a very individual thing as every circumstance is unique.
I hate the folks that burned the library of Alexandria
I mean I’ve had to replace a battery every 2 years otherwise this data point has kept working.
I mean actually demonstrating the product is one of the main advantages of paying for the overhead of a brick and mortar space and fewer and fewer places actually are taking advantage of that and they wonder why they are losing more and more sales… I miss when we didn’t have to purchase everything based on AI best of lists that flood so called search engines…