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    My wife has asked me not to turn the house into a tech junkyard.

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    [–] lengau@midwest.social 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

    Yeah this is basically what I do. People like giving me their stuff because I'm transparent about the deal:

    1. If at all possible, I will wipe it for you.
    2. If it's usable, I will either add it to my TrashCloud™ or (especially for laptops) set it up for a kid.
    3. Parts/devices that I cannot get working I will take to electronics recycling.
    4. No iPhones/iPads.
    [–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

    Big thumbs up from me on the no iPhone/iPad policy.

    That crap is ewaste as soon as Apple inc, decides it's not worth supporting anymore with no option to load a different OS on it. Arguably, it's ewaste before that, but I digress.

    It just sucks that the hardware is made specifically to be incapable of running anything but the OS it was built for, which is entirely controlled by a profit-driven company by way of closed source software.

    Say all the bad things you want about them (I certainly do), but it's hard to say that their hardware isn't good. It's just sabotaged at the factory by their firmware and OS, condemning it to a mediocre and finite existence.

    [–] lengau@midwest.social 2 points 2 days ago

    I love Lemmy.

    I was wondering whether I was going to have to explain that rule to a crowd of angry zealots, furious that I could possibly oppose the Great and Mighty Apple like that.

    I'm not opposed to having macs in my collection (though as it so happens right now I don't have any), because it's not about hating Apple and entirely about whether I can do something useful with the hardware.

    A majority of the ARM hardware I have is old Android phones booting a pretty standard Linux distro with custom kernels. Most of them have drivers missing for various pieces of hardware, but as long as they can boot, connect to my homelab network over USB and run containers, they make excellent build/test devices.

    [–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 days ago

    It's shocking how much corpos just ruin perfectly good electronics by making it busted from the factory