we had no cop or ‘resource officer’ at all, in any of the schools i attended (70s-80s minnesota, rural and the cities). the only times we even saw cops at school was when they were conning parents into letting them have our fingerprints, or for what became the annual ‘DARE scare’.

already have a media ‘server’ and several things to watch ‘tv’ on or from.

this is what we were doing with it… trying out winpodx, but it’s not quite ‘usable’ like this (updated after this, does same). so it (and it’s hp cousin with similar specs) sit waiting for their next call-to-arms.

i’m using an optiplex sff with 32gb ddr4 as a monitor stand right now. i just don’t know what the hell to do with it… so it sits, probably until the dietpi running on a jaguar soc keels over.

the sku and item description indicates a third-party sold the item via bestbuy’s web site. it was upgraded by that third party before final sale. the extra ram would be covered by that entity, not bestbuy.

but we do not know if bestbuy actually returned the modules that were originally in the laptop, nor do we know if it was the oem one or the added one that was ‘bad’. we also don’t know if the third-party seller simply added one so-dimm to the original configuration or pulled the original to install a matched pair instead.

if it was the oem one, it should have been covered by lenovo’s warranty, i.e. replaced by bestbuy as a warranty repair–the laptop having been upgraded is irrelevant to that remedy.

they actually make money on many of those windows preinstalls due to all the bullshit they get paid to put on.