[u-u] Kit recycling

[Toby Thain]

On 2015-12-04 3:08 PM, Giles Orr wrote:
> If the term "garbage picking" bothers anyone, mentally transpose it to
> "saving the environment" because it really does (if only in a small

x 1,000,000

We will end up surviving ONLY through reduce, reuse, recycle, and 
repair. The current accepted habit of waste and obsolescence will come 
to a long overdue end.

--Toby

> way).  And it saves you money too.  Or possibly makes your significant
> other mad at you.  But it's all good.
>
> I also consider Above All to be a good cause: I love that he's there,
> and have bought good stuff from him on more than one occasion.
>
> On 4 December 2015 at 12:15, Doug Lee <douglee at vex.net> wrote:
>> I don't know of anything specific but know of two people who have found
>> working core2duo machines in the garbage. I was present for one of them. It
>> was a Lenovo desktop with working DVD, hard drive and embedded Intel
>> graphics. It had a corrupted slow windows installation and ran great with a
>> fresh Linux install, able to play HD video etc. Broken Windows installations
>> are your friend!! This machine had a core2duo sticker on the outside and the
>> case opened without tools so was easy to evaluate on a chance encounter.
>> This appears to be the new normal for garbage picking and these machines are
>> more than adequate for most normal computing. I am typing this on a core2duo
>> laptop which can run virtual machines, the latest biggest bloated operating
>> systems and even a lot of 3d games. I expect it will still be useful in
>> 10-20 years. This one has 8GB of ram and most desktops will probably take
>> 16. Usually they shipped with at least 2GB. If your friend really wants
>> something, walking around neighbourhoods on garbage day may be very
>> lucrative. Go forth and garbage pick. The current offerings are future proof
>> enough for years of computing happiness :-)
>>
>> My friend gave his find away to Above All Electronics on the south side of
>> Bloor east of Palmerston. If your friend can spend a little money, he might
>> be able to get that or a similar machine there quite cheap. Another friend
>> in Calgary bought a Dell core2duo laptop at a garage sale for $5.00
>>                                 Doug
>>
>> On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, arocker at Vex.Net wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Does anybody have, or know of, any moderately modern x86 equipment being
>>> dumped?
>>>
>>> A friend needs, at a minimum, a DVD drive and a motherboard capable of
>>> supporting it. The box and a hard drive would be a bonus.
>>>
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