Comment on Anon is a PC gamer
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day agoUnfortunately a lot of secondhand hardware is destroyed. Storage devices due to privacy, other components because corporations are unwilling to expend the man hours needed to sell off perfectly good hardware and instead choose an e-waste recycler they can write off as an expense.
Gathorall@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s lucky that my dad’s supplier is sensible about these things, my family has I think 5 refurb Fujitsu laptops at €50 and €70 for the last one.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Wish that happened more often. All these crypto mines or whatever that use massive CPU or GPU power should dump them on the market, but I’ve never seen dumps of low-cost hardware.
SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 18 hours ago
The problem is that the crypto miners and AI servers run on purpose-built hardware now that can’t be repurposed for gaming.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
Yeah, crypto switched to ASIC, but nonetheless there was no cheap hardware dump as they transitioned. And yeah, AI does use regular GPUs, but the consumer versions are used mainly for smaller farms.