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Anon is a PC gamer (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works
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[–] 21 points 8 months ago (9 children)

The other good ending: People learn to disassemble e-waste and reuse stuff instead of throwing them in the trash. Think of all the SSDs, HDDs, and RAM sticks that are thrown out in old laptops and gaming consoles. It would be great to bring more of a reuse, repair, Maguyver, culture back to electronics.

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    Unfortunately a lot of secondhand hardware is destroyed. Storage devices due to privacy, other components because corporations are unwilling to expend the man hours needed to sell off perfectly good hardware and instead choose an e-waste recycler they can write off as an expense.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

    It's lucky that my dad's supplier is sensible about these things, my family has I think 5 refurb Fujitsu laptops at €50 and €70 for the last one. Perfectly fine machines for study, browsing 3D-print terminals, vehicle diagnostics and such daily usage.

    The plateau of processing power and modern energy efficiency means far older machines are viable users for years and years.

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  • [–] 5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Wish that happened more often. All these crypto mines or whatever that use massive CPU or GPU power should dump them on the market, but I’ve never seen dumps of low-cost hardware.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    The problem is that the crypto miners and AI servers run on purpose-built hardware now that can't be repurposed for gaming.

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    I mean, I'm happy to Maguyver my old laptop, I'm just not sure how much utility that last 8gb of ddr3 will deliver to my £5000 gaming rig

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