[tomek@vz]

Earlier this year, we worked with a local computer refurbishing and e-waste recycling organization to part-out computers that were discarded by everyone from end users to corporations. These laptops and desktops can be saved, or in the very least, the valuables (like aluminum and copper) can be removed and smelted down into reusable materials. Parts like CPUs can be repurposed into computers with broken CPUs or used in education, good batteries can be taken from laptops with dead motherboards and installed into laptops with dead batteries, and so forth. Kramden organizes these "Geek-a-Thon" events and Steve attended one nearly 20 years ago, but this time, he got to see how they actually arrange them. This event was super fun! Not everything in here is because of Windows 10 support ending; Kramden does this all the time, for any computer or reason. That's also why you see some Macs in here. Some more background if you're curious: Kramden gets a mix of e-waste and donated / retired machines from local individuals and from companies. Sometimes, these have perfectly good hardware, sometimes they have one or two broken things. They then work with volunteers (like in this episode) to reclaim anything valuable that could be used for education or cobbled-together into a new machine. A good example is the 12700K: This was in there because some company or person got rid of the computer, but obviously that's still a great part. The next step is to identify whatever was broken in the system, save the good parts, and repurpose them (or sell them to fund the classroom program). Anything unusable, such as just broken hardware or obsolete hardware, is broken down into recyclables and trash, sorted, and sent to the right groups to smelt down or dispose of. They are awesome.

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