This week I’m refurbishing a 15+ yr old computer which was stalling on windows 10 and got abandoned. Currently making a huge backup to an Icy box (the self built variant of a wd passport or similar).
On wednesday, a friend comes over and we’re repasting the old i5. I might add some ram and a better but used cpu later which should give this thing another 10 yrs as a server. The mainboard is full of features and would accept a 4 core with 8 threads and 16 GBs of DDR3. Nothing to play recent games on but maaaaany docker containers will run on this baby! :)
Let me know what you’re doing to spit on consumerism and built-for-the-landfill-economy.
Reminder: I made a petition on change.org to make consumer electronics manufacturers open their devices after they stop supporting them. Please sign it, your support is needed.
my first-gen i7 is from 2009. still use it every day, and it plays the games i play (which doesn’t include any recent ‘aaa’ games).
among all the systems around here, which are all former scrap and junk, except for an equally-old propus core athlon that was built using parts from old sales–back when pc parts sales were good, it’s the best one i have.
Thats insane! Thanks for sharing. This i5 is also 1st gen I think. Pretty crazy that this thing is still chugging. The fact that so much electronics are perfectly fine if you dont have remote kill switches in them is both great and incredibly sad. I respect the hell out of you for making old stuff work overtime.