My wife has asked me not to turn the house into a tech junkyard.

  • Barbecue Cowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 hours ago

    I started at the bottom with ewaste, it is truly amazing what companies will just throw away because they don’t want to deal with it.

    I am really looking forward to picking up some cheap used mini PCs here in a few months after the market gets flooded from corporates disposing of their old hardware because of the Windows 10 end of life. Consumers have already started ditching them now, but it takes a minute for enterprise to get it to a disposal company who then gets to pawn it off on the used market and that’s the good stuff.

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      3 hours ago

      Yes! Gotta figure out the new models, hopefully it will be some good times. I just love being 5 years after, at a fraction of the price.

    • rumba@lemmy.zip
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      12 hours ago

      Your average company is woefully prepared to deal with ewaste. If you sell it, there are legal and financial ramifications. Assuming you could make at most a couple hundred on a box, the labor to take it someplace, deal with finance, deal with legal, deal with returns for anything that goes doa in the move. The best you can do is sell or give it to a wholesaler who will give you near nothing for it to shoulder the risk.

      Whenever possible, I release old hardware to end users. Refresh it, let them give it to their kids/family/whatever.