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A comment on Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardware?.

Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw... by zeckalpha on Saturday July 11, 2020 @05:57AM (#23800851)
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/

Sent from my 2016 iPhone SE.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw... by diarrhea on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:33AM (#23801307)
> 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.

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Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw... by zeckalpha on Saturday July 11, 2020 @10:17AM (#23802374)
Not if I continue to use the old hardware until it is unusable.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw... by Paianni on Saturday July 11, 2020 @07:51AM (#23801396)
Even for motor vehicles?
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Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw... by TomMarius on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:48AM (#23801097)
Consider 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.
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Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw... by thom on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:42AM (#23801073)
Anyone have a recommendation for a similar organisation in the UK?
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Re:Ask HN: What's your process for reselling your used hardw... by OJFord on Saturday July 11, 2020 @06:46AM (#23801088)
Your local tip. (Deal with disks according to your paranoia level first of course.)
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