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My wife has asked me not to turn the house into a tech junkyard.
Me, ~~fighting with~~ using an am5 chipset & nvidia graphics card for Wayland based distros because damn it, who needs a working machine anyway: "Heh, guess I'm not a clown"
Madness? Buying a new computer every 2 years because the OS vendor is in cahoots with hardware manufacturers is madness. This is rational usage of resources for your benefit.
OS vendor is in cahoots with hardware manufacturers
That's pretty much the strategy since Microsoft has been established. It's not very creative, it's not even legal, so it's impressive (in a bad way) that they manage to keep on making it work.
Buy e-waste? I have people give it to me for free. Offer to recycle it for them.
The classic
offers to recycle
actually installs esoteric Linux distros
Classic!
I run a Windows 7 laptop and bought a PC at Value Village and maxed out the RAM thanks to Aliexpress. Junk FTW!!
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.
This is the life I want for myself.
I came here to discover why this tactics gets the full clown⦠yes⦠we must renew machines and THEN GIVE THEM AWAY.
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.
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 didnβt have space in the moving truck. Learned my lesson.
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!
Windows: creates e-waste
Linux: undoes e-waste
Windows: creates e-waste
Linux: collects e-waste under the stairs "just in case it's useful"
All the computers living under the stairs are running some server function. π€·ββοΈ
They're heating the room too so technically it's a radiator with network attached storage!
SmArt RAdiAToR!!
OP after trying Linux:
Unless you have an Asus m32cd_a_f_k20cd_k31cd motherboard. I've tried EVERY bloody configuration in the bios possible and several different distros, and they all crash / freeze during installation. Fuck you Asus π€¬
Just because you have OS install media and hardware does not mean the hardware functions. In fact, old hardware often fails MEMTST.
I'm sure that is often the case. But with this series, Its this specific model. A friend of mine has the Asus M32 from the previous year and he was able to get mint installed without any issues. Just bad luck with the model I bought. It's always given me headaches so not being able to switch to linux tracks
Have you tried LibreBoot? Is that still a project?
Getting visibly annoyed whe you find out you can't easily run mainline linux on some proprietary piece of hardware like a phone or smart TV.
But hey at least my robot vacuum runs on Ubuntu by default lol.
And Taco Bell drive thru, apparently
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I started at the bottom with ewaste, it is truly amazing what companies will just throw away because they don't want to deal with it.
I am really looking forward to picking up some cheap used mini PCs here in a few months after the market gets flooded from corporates disposing of their old hardware because of the Windows 10 end of life. Consumers have already started ditching them now, but it takes a minute for enterprise to get it to a disposal company who then gets to pawn it off on the used market and that's the good stuff.
Yes! Gotta figure out the new models, hopefully it will be some good times. I just love being 5 years after, at a fraction of the price.
If you can believe it, there are some people who will straight up give you their e-waste, as if it's trash or something!
"What do you mean, 'Why do I need that stack of old ThinkPads?'. They were free!"