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 wife and I are spending as little money as possible this year.
I’ve been building out my server to replace as many enshittified websites/services/software as I can, and the server is an eight or so year old machine that I repurposed.
I bike for transportation as much as I can.
My wife and I heavily utilize our local library
We continue to look for new opportunities to give a middle finger to capitalism
Thats the most awesome thing I heard today! Thank you so much for sharing this. I think you and your wife are awesome people and great role models. I wish more people were like you two! Congrats to being great! :)