Reusing Old Hardware
The cluster discusses alternatives to recycling or discarding old computers, laptops, and enterprise hardware, such as reselling on eBay or Craigslist, donating to hackerspaces, or keeping as backups to avoid e-waste. Commenters emphasize the value of refurbished markets and lament institutions' bulk destruction of functional devices.
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At least resell it. Plenty of people out there still using them.
I'd be glad to take any sweet obsolete enterprise HW off them.
Find a local hackerspace. They'll probably take them and re-use them or dispose/sell them for you.
That's not recycling. That's decommissioning and reselling good hardware.
Not really, there's big refurbished computers market, where this stuff ends up.
lol. you could also donate the old laptop
I never resell stuff, I upgrade my phone, pc and laptop once every 6 years and keep the previous as a backup. And the one before that i disassemble to parts and only keep those if they're still useable (and useful e.g. if i repair a family members pc) or throw them away.
Most laptops end up in the trash because of the case, keyboards, etc. If you keep it headless why not.
Could be a comfort thing, could be a "don't want to throw away perfectly good hardware" thing.
Donate the dusty ones to the nearest hacker/makerspace?