[u-u] Kit recycling

[Alex Lebedev]

Hacklab.to  has junk independence days. Everyone brings their stuff
exchange things, and then "junk removal" gets called in.

On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Toby Thain <toby at telegraphics.com.au> wrote:

> 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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With Best Regards, Alex
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