Sadly the quality and build methodologies on most modern hardware that becomes e-waste isn't really suited to long-term re-use. Solder joints get smaller and c

Sadly the quality and build methodologies on most modern hardware that becomes e-waste isn't really suited to long-term re-use. Solder joints get smaller and closer every year, leaving whiskers more and more likely to eventually short out two adjacent pins. Not to mention the cheap failure prone board level components found everywhere. (Yay for esploding capacitors). And that's before you even get to all the junk embedded devices that have little in the way of standardization or documentation, etc. That hardware will likely never run software the OEM didn't ship.