This week I’m refurbishing a 15+ yr old computer which was stalling on windows 10 and got abandoned. Currently making a huge backup to an Icy box (the self built variant of a wd passport or similar).

On wednesday, a friend comes over and we’re repasting the old i5. I might add some ram and a better but used cpu later which should give this thing another 10 yrs as a server. The mainboard is full of features and would accept a 4 core with 8 threads and 16 GBs of DDR3. Nothing to play recent games on but maaaaany docker containers will run on this baby! :)

Let me know what you’re doing to spit on consumerism and built-for-the-landfill-economy.

Reminder: I made a petition on change.org to make consumer electronics manufacturers open their devices after they stop supporting them. Please sign it, your support is needed.

  • Rusty Shackleford@programming.dev
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    3 months ago

    I’ve repurposed, repaired, and resold as many (> 85% ?) of my PCs, SmartPhones, Laptops, and Tablets as possible since 2013 as smartcams, servers, and edge computing nodes.

    • haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPM
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      3 months ago

      Thats incredible! My stuff is so old that probably nobody will take it but I‘m having fun and if someone needs something I‘ll just give it away.