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   kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 16:42:04 JST kaia
   yesterday I received my "broken" perfectly working Jabra Evolve2 75 that the business reseller did not understand were perfectly okay when used with the Jabra dongle. a friend previously bought a pair to repair and noticed that it was fine.
   
   what other "enterprise-grade" tech items are maybe sold as broken? :Sheew:
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     The MILF Messiah (lunarised@whinge.town)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 16:43:32 JST The MILF Messiah

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     @kaia you can sometimes find some fantastic deals on routers if one of the uplink ports doesnt work. My old one had 2 uplink ports, 1 didnt work, so I just used the other, Easy as
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     Nicro (nicro@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 18:11:12 JST Nicro

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     @kaia Don’t know about “broken”, but “EOL/Unsupported” business stuff gets hauled off by the container-load. I worked in a company with a lot of tech, next to the supply room. Stuff like Monitors, Network-devices, or full desktops would show up in the hallway. Thrown into big unsecured rolling cubbies, before getting picked up by the recycling-provider. Happened about 1-2 times a year and since it was a hallway most employees would go through (behind the ID-check, so not public), stuff would go missing all the time and it was secretly intended to. The desktops would be missing their harddrives obviously, those were processed for data-protection. But the networking stuff came with all kinds of interesting configs. The most noteworthy thing was probably an original Mac mini a colleague pulled.

     Some people did ebay the desktops as “not working” for 50 bucks a piece without drives, but it was frowned upon. If you find an office desktop for sale without drives, it’s probably “stolen”-goods in this manner.

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     kaia (kaia@brotka.st)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 18:12:18 JST kaia

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     @Nicro makes sense. glad it was tolerated :comfy:
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     Qadse Sanur Qut ibn Quaadibz :catsader: (nerthos@shitposter.world)'s status on Friday, 07-Mar-2025 18:53:46 JST Qadse Sanur Qut ibn Quaadibz :catsader:

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     @kaia Do they use a propietary dongle, or is it possible to just use any bluetooth dongle?
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