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minus-square@Geodad@beehaw.orglinkfedilink18•11 days agoAbsolutely! I love giving old hardware a new life. Once I’ve finished tinkering, and if it’s fully functional, I give them to poor families who can’t afford to buy a laptop for their kids. Sadly, there are a lot of those here in Appalachia.
minus-square@renard_roux@beehaw.orglinkfedilink5•11 days agoRecently bought a 2015 MacBook with great specs, running Ventura via OCLP and purring like a kitten 👌
minus-square@blitzen@lemmy.mllinkfedilink3•10 days agoI’ve thought about starting a charity doing exactly that.
minus-square@Geodad@beehaw.orglinkfedilink2•10 days agoYeah, the ones with dead ports become part of my network as either storage or some sort of home server.
Absolutely!
I love giving old hardware a new life.
Once I’ve finished tinkering, and if it’s fully functional, I give them to poor families who can’t afford to buy a laptop for their kids.
Sadly, there are a lot of those here in Appalachia.
Recently bought a 2015 MacBook with great specs, running Ventura via OCLP and purring like a kitten 👌
I’ve thought about starting a charity doing exactly that.
Yeah, the ones with dead ports become part of my network as either storage or some sort of home server.