The charity isn’t destroying them,
And?
The charity is rejecting them, not destroying them. Then the city supply chain destroys them. The thread title is accurate.
I said YOU should put the work in to maintain them,
Not quite. You said I should work for the charity. That shitty attempt at barking out orders as a self-appointed manager was already defeated. One extra person working for a charity shop while keeping the situation concealed from the fediverse doesn’t solve the global trend of spychip-free machines being destroyed. You’ve been told this already.
Put the work in to either advertise the alternatives you like or call these things the same words as the rest of us.
Oof. Call the pre-spychip machines “obsolete PCs on the wrong side of (your imagined) interoperability cutoff” in the face of customers? Your marketing skills suck. But you do you.
Making up “spychip” and staying it over and over is opaque and harmful to the conversations you are a part of.
Simply calling pre-spychip machines as “pre-spychip machines” is far more effective and does not involve lying about interoperability. But you do you.