Benefits of being a tech hoarder. I’ve got backups. And an unexpected benefit of the slowing of tech advancement is that stuff that’s 10+ years old still holds up pretty well.
Yeah my “new” pc is even pretty old at this point, but I have like 3 desktops from the Haswell era, and they all still work just fine.
And I have a gaggle of coffee lake era thinkpads and dell precision laptops that I dumpster dove right after my shift when I used to work in IT lol. One small plus to giant multinational companies not giving a fuck about the environment I guess. Just had to replace drives and sometimes keyboards or displays on my those.
Oh yeah those things are great. Used the precision when I went back to school to finish up a degree and is still my primary laptop, a thinkpad for my 3d printers, another thinkpad as a Jellyfin server, and my dad used the other precision for a few years, but now that just sits as a backup laptop at my parents house.
Some of my coworkers sold some of the laptops, but that kind of sketched me out because they have “Property of [company I used to work at] Serial No.######” laser etched on top lol
Not like you’ll have a choice when your hardware fails and you want to keep using your PC.
Benefits of being a tech hoarder. I’ve got backups. And an unexpected benefit of the slowing of tech advancement is that stuff that’s 10+ years old still holds up pretty well.
Yep. I have three full PCs and two laptops.
AND spare parts left over.
Only one of them is any good but all are usable and i can do some cannibalizing to keep the good one going for a bit.
Yeah my “new” pc is even pretty old at this point, but I have like 3 desktops from the Haswell era, and they all still work just fine.
And I have a gaggle of coffee lake era thinkpads and dell precision laptops that I dumpster dove right after my shift when I used to work in IT lol. One small plus to giant multinational companies not giving a fuck about the environment I guess. Just had to replace drives and sometimes keyboards or displays on my those.
Oh for sure, my stuff is all garbage except my main rig, which is still AM4. My laptops are from 2012/2013 lmao
Rescuing and actually using corp ewaste is so cool!
Oh yeah those things are great. Used the precision when I went back to school to finish up a degree and is still my primary laptop, a thinkpad for my 3d printers, another thinkpad as a Jellyfin server, and my dad used the other precision for a few years, but now that just sits as a backup laptop at my parents house.
Some of my coworkers sold some of the laptops, but that kind of sketched me out because they have “Property of [company I used to work at] Serial No.######” laser etched on top lol