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[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 32 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I beg friends for ewaste and harvest their organs.

[–] rmuk@feddit.uk 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Even an Oxford comma couldn't save that one.

[–] waldfee@feddit.org 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

relevant xkcd My all-time favorite example of syntactic ambiguity comes from Wikipedia: 'Charlotte's Web is a children's novel by American author E. B. White, about a pig named Wilbur who is saved from being slaughtered by an intelligent spider named Charlotte.'

[–] mogranja@lemmy.eco.br 9 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And what do you do with the ewaste?

[–] fossilesque@mander.xyz 10 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
  1. Upgrade my own stuff and servers.
  2. Have spare parts to fix my stuff or quick fixes for friends.
  3. If I can repair it and do not need it, I found some groups that take them for refugees and needy folks or they go by word of mouth to friends in need. I fix them in a very lazy fashion.
  4. I live pretty close to one of the local recycling spots, so I can quickly and safely dispose of stuff I cannot use.
  5. eBay is great.

I have gotten a ton of free storage this way, makes it totally worth it. If they give me a few old laptops, I put all their data on one drive and take the rest.

[–] yermaw@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And their organs?

[–] Natanael@infosec.pub 11 points 6 days ago

The nearest church choir gets those

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Pretty sure I could build a battery bank that would rival styropyro's most recent one.