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.
Oh sure!
It’s not like I did it overnight and nothing went into the garbage–I slowly gave everything away as I replaced it. I realized one day that it was stupid to use plastics, especially with all the talk about microplastics and the fact that you can’t heat in plastic. Since then, began to acquire new spatulas, spoons for stirring, and such, and then focused on food storage. Although I still have some ZipLoc bags around, I rarely use them (and reuse the ones that are not contaminated in some way). Instead, I went with some glassware–the bases are glass but the tops are silicon. I found them on Cyber Monday one day and jumped on it:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09KCL4ZC1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
These do all the things I need and come in all sorts of sizes. Can go into the freezer and microwave as well as the dishwasher. I highly recommend!
As before, I still do have some plastic. This is a philosophy rather than a religion for me. My goal is to reduce the amount I intake/use as much as possible.