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I don’t really. Hardware generally doesn’t get less useful with age, just less efficient than new/current hardware. Handing that inefficiency off to someone els
by zeckalpha 6y ago
I don’t really. Hardware generally doesn’t get less useful with age, just less efficient than new/current hardware. Handing that inefficiency off to someone else doesn’t do well for our overall carbon footprint.
Instead, buy things that last, use them until you can’t, then recycle them: https://www.techdump.org/ https://www.techdump.org/
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- thom 6y agoAnyone have a recommendation for a similar organisation in the UK?
- OJFord 6y agoYour local tip. (Deal with disks according to your paranoia level first of course.)
- TomMarius 6y agoConsider that while a ML engineer is running the GPU all day, every day, a weekend gamer will run a game on it only every weekend.
- diarrhea 6y ago> Handing that inefficiency off to someone else doesn’t do well for our overall carbon footprint. Instead, they will go ahead and buy a new item for themselves. Its increased efficiency is unlikely to make up for the cost of manufacturing an entire new item from scratch, carbon-wise.