• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Unfortunately a lot of secondhand hardware is destroyed. Storage devices due to privacy, other components because corporations are unwilling to expend the man hours needed to sell off perfectly good hardware and instead choose an e-waste recycler they can write off as an expense.

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      12 hours ago

      It’s lucky that my dad’s supplier is sensible about these things, my family has I think 5 refurb Fujitsu laptops at €50 and €70 for the last one. Perfectly fine machines for study, browsing 3D-print terminals, vehicle diagnostics and such daily usage.

      The plateau of processing power and modern energy efficiency means far older machines are viable users for years and years.

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        12 hours ago

        Wish that happened more often. All these crypto mines or whatever that use massive CPU or GPU power should dump them on the market, but I’ve never seen dumps of low-cost hardware.

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          The problem is that the crypto miners and AI servers run on purpose-built hardware now that can’t be repurposed for gaming.

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            5 hours ago

            Yeah, crypto switched to ASIC, but nonetheless there was no cheap hardware dump as they transitioned. And yeah, AI does use regular GPUs, but the consumer versions are used mainly for smaller farms.