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https://www.pcmag.com/news/avoid-the-trash-heap-15-great-uses-for-an-old-pc
In 2019, after seven years of slumps, PC sales went up by the tiniest increment—0.3 percent. Demand then surged in recent weeks as people shifted to work-from-home setups due to COVID-19 quarantines. Which means some of you may be getting a new computer. But what do you do with the old PC?
You may be tempted to go the easy route and just junk it. But don't. If that laptop or desktop was created any time in the last decade, you'd be surprised by how much life you (or others) can get out of it. I'm not talking about limping along, but of ways to bring an old PC back to useful life.
[This editor can vouch for plenty of life in old boxes. For the past 4 years, a now-nearly-decade-year-old Core 2 Duo Laptop with 6 GB RAM has been my primary computer.--martyb]
(Score: 4, Interesting) by SomeGuy on Thursday April 30 2020, @11:10AM
I've also run in to a lot of sites lately that completely break if you are running a desktop or even a window of 1024*768 or less. Usually what happens is that the crap scripting libraries they use automatically switch to a narrow "small screen" or "mobile" layout, but the idiots never even check that it works and probably never even hooked up the bits for it to work in the first place. Accessibility? Whats that? Less than 1%=not supported!