What do you do with your old technology?

[infinityDouki32]

What do you do with your old relics, unused laptops, disused towers, under done servers
what is it you do with them after your use case for them has stopped?

Repurposing them into Linux Machines (like a webserver, a docker host, or an Mangadex@home node if I can afford faster internet). At work, we still have machines running Windows 7 of all places as well as my work machine during my OJT days (used to run older software for compatability reasons)

 

[kirbo]

If I can spare the electricity money, it'll become a proxmox node. Although I wanna expand the storage on the current one.

 

[Teasday]

At one point I had three desktop computers I "rescued" from an office that were old enough to be using DDR2 and probably running Windows 2000 just sitting in my entryway closet because I couldn't fit them anywhere else

After about four years I moved out and tossed them in a landfill or something idk

I don't think I've ever sold anything I've owned

 

[doppler]

Here is a few ideas:
1. Use thermite on it. Look it up nasty stuff.
2. Glue a thin doughnut ring under the CD's. It a frizbee, or a substitute for a clay pigeon. P U L L !!
3. Keep it til it becomes retro again. Old Commodore 64's working or not are going for more than new in there day. PS, it's because of the sound SID chip.

 

[aknighttoremember]

I usually keep em as a memento or just give em to family members, I think I have personal attachments to my stuff so selling them is out of the question.

 

[Bitcrusher32]

Have an old and very slow Nexus 5 phone. It had wireless charging so I leveraged that and made an (almost)always on nav screen for my car(old honda civic). Have like 10 gb of offline local google maps on it, does very well for is purpose. I also have a very old IBM T42 thinkpad. Very slow, and only really useful as a word processor. I took windows xp off of it and replaced it with KODI, now I play movies on an old tv in my garage via dvd player, usb downloads, and KODI using the laptop. Not particularly fast, but does its job pretty decently for an aged laptop.

 

[vmman]

I inherited a celenium cell 1970s point-and-shoot and rn im just displaying it, but I want to get it to work again!!!

oh! thought this was in lounge, I give my old phone, every time I switch (every 4/5 years or so?) to grandpa! He likes to learn so it's always great for him!

 

[vmman]

I usually keep em as a memento or just give em to family members, I think I have personal attachments to my stuff so selling them is out of the question.

same, even with stuff not tech related, like, I have all my eyeglasses sinse i entered school, im a 1st year at uni now, our I don't particularly like to throuw clothing items out even though they don't have more uses (after the machine shop rag stage)