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What Should I Do With My Tech Junk?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the i-got-a-whole-closet-full dept.

Thomas Matysik writes "I'm attempting to de-clutter my house and I've hit a rough patch: the computer room. I've got a bunch of wires, hardware and software that (I think) were useful at one point in time, but these days it doesn't do much more than take up space. Selling it seems like it'd be a huge hassle and it seems really wasteful for me to just pitch all of this stuff in the dumpster. I've considered giving it away to Goodwill, but I'm afraid that's not the right sort of outlet for this stuff. My question: what should I do with all of my tech junk?"

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  1. Re:Bring it to a recycling centre by Intron · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Wow. Thanks for that warning. I've been disassembling and assembling hardware all my life using lead solder on my kitchen table without ever using a fume hood, fans or a filter mask. I should be dead now since it's so dangerous.

    Oh that's right. I don't eat the solder! Fortunately, neither do these kids. They take the lead, make it into cheap jewelry and sell it to American kids who do. Look it up. Lead poisoning deaths in this country are not happening to people handling electronics. They're happening to kids eating cheap foreign jewelry.

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    Intron: the portion of DNA which expresses nothing useful.
  2. Re:A similar idea by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    That's nothing, someone's taking my computer right n%$@^[NO CARRIER

    Yo, dat computer be sweet. I be jackin' it to dose pictuhs of yo wife. I probably gunna sen yo cracka ass to GitMo and fuck dat bitch all night long.

    Praise Allah!
    -Barack