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    [–] h3ll3rsh4nks@ani.social 39 points 1 day ago (4 children)

    The dump I go to every week to drop off my household garbage has an e waste shed. The guys that work there told me I can pick through it. My basement is a pc graveyard now.

    [–] LeFantome@programming.dev 8 points 1 day ago

    At my dump, you get weighed on the way in and out and you pay for the weight you drop. So, if you leave your garbage and load up some ewaste, it saves you money. They are literally paying you to take it away.

    [–] clashorcrashman@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 day ago

    This is the life I want for myself.

    [–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I came here to discover why this tactics gets the full clown… yes… we must renew machines and THEN GIVE THEM AWAY.

    [–] h3ll3rsh4nks@ani.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Yeah I tend to archive hardware till I meet someone who needs a system then I try to put something together that meets their needs. Otherwise I mothball it till I have a hardware failure in one of my servers etc. Thankfully the systems I am taking are heading for a grinder somewhere and not being repurposed.

    [–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    Exactly.

    In the late zeroes, the local recycle place got a bunch of full monitors as a local business transitioned to flat screens. I grabbed about twelve of them, thinking I would be able to build machines for kids without computers. I placed three full systems before we moved and I sadly had to dump a slew of them because we didn’t have space in the moving truck. Learned my lesson.

    [–] h3ll3rsh4nks@ani.social 3 points 1 day ago

    I've started keeping a handful of cases and I test all the hardware, catalog it and then put it in totes layered with anti static bubble wrap. Works great for jamming a large density of hardware in a small space!

    [–] GladiusB@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] h3ll3rsh4nks@ani.social 5 points 1 day ago

    So far 2008-2009. Waiting to find some quality beige cases lol