Should I feel ashamed as I migrated from second hand Thinkpads to second hand Dell Latitude? I got a 7410 for 300€ 2 years ago and I really have no complaint about it. And it looks better (personal opinion).
this post was submitted on 07 May 2024
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I'm rich asf and not even capable to operate a coffee maker - still using Linux. Whaddaya say now?!
Bravo 👏.
People don't mention it much but I think it's actually the most powerful thing about Linux (and open source more broadly) that it's free to use. It doesn't matter if you're down on your luck, were born in a poor nation through no fault of your own, or are working class and getting crushed by the capitalist economy. It's a leveller and, in my view, represents power, resilience and dignity in solidarity. It's literally one of the few important things left in the world that we have like that.
Free cost and free as in freedom to understand and modify the code. I also think it's a beautiful way of doing things. We also have Wikipedia and Openstreetmap. The internet has a tremendous potential for collaboration, people doing things because they want to, for the benefit of everyone.
I totally agree! I wish I could contribute more to these things that I use, but it also (and maybe more importantly) makes me want to be more free and generous with all the things I can do. Looking at how most things are today, superficially it seems far-fetched to imagine economies of generosity but actually I think it's got a lot of power to perpetuate itself.
My daily driver laptop is the T410 I found at a thrift store for $5.
I keep hearing stories like this but all I see in thrift stores are like busted DVD players and other grimey old stuff that was second-rate even when released. In that awkward valley where it's not vintage, and newer stuff is objectively better.
I think people caught on and the good finds are pushed to their auction sites and stuff now. =\
I'm happy with my X230 I got for $200 off eBay though, like 5 years back.¯_(ツ)_/¯
Goodwill is particularly bad about this. You can almost never find cool stuff in the stores anymore. It's all siphoned off for ShopGoodwill.
It was definitely one of my luckiest finds, but I think another part of it was that it was a pay by weight bin outlet. A St. Vincent De Paul in my case. Stuff isn't individually priced and you weigh your items on a scale when you check out and pay by the pound. It's usually very cheap because mine has a maximum of $5.00 per item so even heavy things like typewriters have been cheap.
I much prefer bin outlets because of this.
I'm surprised and impressed it made it to the bin outlet!
I keep trying to keep an ear out for these fabled "IT cycles" where companies will just dump Dells and Thinkpads once in a while, but have never been privvy to one myself.
Maybe indystry caught on and switched procedure, realizing they weren't creating enough e-waste /s lol.
(To be fair, the last place I worked donated their laptops for tax breaks, which is good I guess. But wouldn't let me even buy one off them, so I'm salty lol.)
If it wasn't for those rascally penguins I would be flat broke trying to afford the latest system requirements for Windows 12 or a mediocre MacBook instead of a $120 5 year old Dell Latitude, how dare they!!
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