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A $35 Used Laptop in 2025

November 25, 2025

In 2025, a $35 second-hand laptop might sound like e-waste, but for many people it’s still surprisingly useful. Whether it’s retirees on a fixed income browsing the web and reading the news, field techs needing a cheap laptop for on-site work, or anyone looking for a ‘beater’ machine, an old, inexpensive computer often fits the bill perfectly.

How to fix “Error of this Agent is reported first” on Lenovo ThinkStation with dual GPUs running Ubuntu Server

September 27, 2025

I recently set up an AI server in my home, based on a Lenovo ThinkStation P3 Tower Gen 2 (Intel). It worked fine with a single GPU, but upon adding the second GPU, I was getting a bunch of “Error of this Agent is reported first” errors spammed across the screen. They’d show up upon bootup, and then anytime I ran an AI workload that used the GPUs. Here’s how to easily resolve this issue by disabling ASPM.