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Post by André on Apr 27, 2024 22:07:35 GMT
Been sorting out & i kid you not we have around 6 laptops, 3 tablets, two Amazon fire, pile of mobile phones & media players all redundant, plus the ones we presently use ..nothing wrong with the old ones but upto date ones just take over & you never seem to use them again. I never sell them on or give them away because even though you factory reset them i still would not trust them in others hands hence i will end up destroying them. Tech is short term & basically ££££ down the drain The wife wants a new tablet which that will be one more for the pile.  |
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Post by Westie on Apr 27, 2024 22:19:25 GMT
Ditto: It’s just too risky to sell these things on, so they just sit there and accumulate. For me at least, tech has no place in a hifi system. It’s all just throwaway junk.
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Post by dsjr on Apr 28, 2024 8:09:00 GMT
Take the hard drives out of laptops and crush 'em. Laptops may be recycled. Tablets can usually be totally wiped but unsure if data could still be extracted - why they'd want to is another matter compared to the thousands of others that get recycled and which really may have data stored on them. All our stuff is old and I'm typing this on a Core 2 Duo Dell from ten years or so back that wasn't even a top-line model.
Why the need for the latest thing all the time? We have some older phones which were either too small for our eyes these days or became out of date and not able to run more recent software. SIMs removed and factory reset to remove apps (no meaningful data stored). When we have another major clearout I daresay they may be taken for recycling. My current phone is several years old and hardly used but my wife's is still a current model which again replaced an old one.
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Post by André on Apr 28, 2024 8:25:39 GMT
Take the hard drives out of laptops and crush 'em. Laptops may be recycled. Tablets can usually be totally wiped but unsure if data could still be extracted - why they'd want to is another matter compared to the thousands of others that get recycled and which really may have data stored on them. All our stuff is old and I'm typing this on a Core 2 Duo Dell from ten years or so back that wasn't even a top-line model. Why the need for the latest thing all the time? We have some older phones which were either too small for our eyes these days or became out of date and not able to run more recent software. SIMs removed and factory reset to remove apps (no meaningful data stored). When we have another major clearout I daresay they may be taken for recycling. My current phone is several years old and hardly used but my wife's is still a current model which again replaced an old one. Because support finishes hence no updates are available anymore which causes problems. You cant always take out hard drives. Wife goes on certain social media shite, the latest app will only work on the latest Android OS & on & on |
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Post by Westie on Apr 28, 2024 9:02:02 GMT
The older stuff gets slower and slower, and is a bigger and bigger security risk too. It’s not some obsessive need to have the latest version: It’s just necessary to have something that continues to run the things you use, doesn’t sit for ages trying to do basic things and doesn’t risk letting your data get in the wrong hands.
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Post by dsjr on Apr 28, 2024 11:05:04 GMT
My stuff runs what it needs to do, th erouter has a firewall and so do the Windows devices. The Chromebooks are now beyond updates but they run fine and I have quite strict cookie handling. I rarely use social media anyway. maybe (almost certainly) I'm the exception to the rule here...
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Post by André on Apr 28, 2024 11:42:59 GMT
My stuff runs what it needs to do, th erouter has a firewall and so do the Windows devices. The Chromebooks are now beyond updates but they run fine and I have quite strict cookie handling. I rarely use social media anyway. maybe (almost certainly) I'm the exception to the rule here... Yeah like i said there is nothing wrong with them, in fact some of the laptops i fitted new KINGSTOND SSD. But ive used old machines without present updates & issues have be are apparent with new programmes but i suppose it what you do & run with them. |
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