Notices by Nicro (nicro@fedi.absturztau.be)

@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.