In regards to Violette, the keyboard might just need cleaning of it's contacts, but since she is a laptop, that means complete disassembly, which isn't really easy to do, and time consuming too.
Greta is nearly three years old too (she will be three on May 7th), and so far, she's still running well. I can technically update her graphics drivers to newer versions, but since I don't play big 3D games and stick to the simple casual stuff, I don't see a need to. I also found out the newest Nvidia drivers break older CUDA applications, and that means MediaEspresso loses hardware accelerated transcoding. :/
I was wondering, Angel. I looked up KMPlayer, and it seems to be similar to VLC media player, which has been my go to video player app until recently. VLC is also what I use to screencap from DVDs. Have you used VLC before Angel? If not, how is KMPlayer? I might want to give that a try myself if it can screencap DVDs well.
Also, as for that refresh bug you mentioned Angel, I sometimes get it too, usually after posting a reply to the thread. The page loads up with your new post, and sometimes when I reload, it also goes back a few pages. The browser I use is Opera.
One more thing... I forgot to talk about
Jasper, a rather old Pentium III box that belonged to a friend of mine. I meant to use him as sort of a late 90s - early 2000s gaming PC, but I lack a KVM switch at the moment. A KVM switch allows you to use a single keyboard, mouse, and speakers with two or more computers at the same time.
Jasper still runs, but I need to find a way to make him quieter as he runs rather noisily.