Quoting Marc Haber (2025-08-14 11:23:02) > On Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:10:26 +0100, Wookey <woo...@wookware.org> > wrote: > >> plus giving people with tight budgets a shot at decent, up-to-date > >> software. > > > >There is loads of old 64-bit hardware that can be had at freecycle prices to > >replace the power-hungry i386 kit you are still running. > > Since one of the major competitors is killing support for older x86_64 > CPUs next months, there should be an ample amount of such machines on the > market.
You do not need Microsoft to kill Windows support for older machines for this to happen. And why did you avoid naming the company and product responsible for this disaster? There already are (and have been for a long while) orders of magnitude more computers that are given away for free than there are takers. The group in our city which collects, refurbishes and then donates computers in my hometown has had this problem for years. There are much more donations than there are people willing to use the computers. They have to refuse donations as a result. I was told the situation is similar in other cities in Germany. My former university as well as my current one has been throwing away roll-off containers full of perfectly working computers for years as there is little incentive to keep the old computers when money to buy new ones is offered. I just fear that this abundance is a regional property and that other parts of the world are probably unable to fathom how this kind of waste is possible or even considered "normal" in the first place... Anyways, if you live in a country with a similar problem, there is little reason to buy a new computer. Not even the "they are power hungry monsters" argument counts as these machines are too new for that. Thanks! cheers, josch
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