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.

  • hauiOPMA
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    3 months ago

    Ah! Got it.

    I‘m a huge film nerd so I have hundreds of dvds and blu rays but 80% are bought cheap, same for some cds. I do want to just turn on the tv or music if I need it and not be blasted with ads or otherwise abused. That works well for me. Everything is backed up on my pc and the physical stuff is in the basement.