What do you do with your old technology?

[Arisu0404]

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?

 

[NicoNicotin]

I usually give them away, not smart enough to get parts out of them or re utilizing them in some other way.
It's really sad how a lot of newer tech is meant to be dumped in the trash.

 

[Trobilobada]

I turned gameboy-kun into a MD@H node🫃

 

[KATCRX]

It was forgotten and disappeared.

 

[Case]

I donate it to friends or throw it into the trash. It's not like I have the expertise or time to make use of old tech, and for organization-sake I do periodic cleaning, so I tend to donate/throw away stuff before it piles up somewhere in my house.

 

[xYuichan]

I either sell them or donate them. As for laptops, I try to keep them around in the hope I can repair them, but I kill every windows laptop I touch. Mostly I try to refurbish what I can though, I like to switch around devices from time to time.

 

[Maid_kun]

turn em into hosting servers, or media centers for family. my website started from just steam link, and then eventually i just took it out of my room, gave it a ton of storage, and then host all my anime there.

 

[sterven]

Destroy them too many dark secrets in them.

 

[Pibata]

Usually I use them until they stop working so I think trash? Don't actually remember throwing things away

My old smartphones are still in my there tho, I hope I can recover the files

 

[Pibata]

Destroy them too many dark secrets in them.

I like dark secrets

 

[wcfdwfc]

Banished to the realm of the Drawer

 

[Remocracy]

With phones I just keep them in storage. With an old laptop I made it into an Ubuntu server.

 

[lasersPew]

I just store my old chonky laptop to my tech corner. When I see it again, I honor it after it's service to me.

 

[lasersPew]

I just store my old chonky laptop to my tech corner. When I see it again, I honor it after it's service to me.

 

[dzakijack]

Give it to my nieces

 

[Micker003]

So far... most old tech i stopped using broke. Old laptop died of iGPU failure (2nd gen i5). Old phone has a broken screen, but like that broke that it hurts my fingers if I use it...

 

[Samhill]

I recycle them after wiping the drives.

 

[Black_id]

I installed Ubuntu on my old 2013 laptop. I don't want to create another E-waste.

 

[EOTFOFYL]

I can't throw this out,
It might be useful later!
I'll store it somewhere....

 

[Syri]

I can't throw this out,
It might be useful later!
I'll store it somewhere....

Where did you get a picture of my drawer from??
I often intend to sell things on, or throw them out, but most of the time I just think "maybe that will be useful some day" and into a drawer or cupboard it goes. Still, if ever some huge bank with an ancient server powering everything suffers a RAM failure, hanging on to that old DDR2 stick might just have been worth it!