cross-posted from: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/58764195

I was in the non-profit shop of a local charity. They accept donations of used computers then resell them to the public. The profit goes to charity. I asked for their oldest machine. It had an AMD chip from the 16h family. Thus, a spychip.

So their oldest machine was still too new for me. I asked why don’t you have anything older? They said the general public would not accept anything older, and so the shop also does not accept anything older. When machines are rejected, they go to a factory that destroys them and recovers the raw metals.

It’s sad to see that pre-spychip machines are being destroyed and that even 2nd-hand customers are being limited to anti-consumer spychip hardware.

  • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.netM
    3·
    1 month ago

    Okay this is my first time actually having to moderate this community but this is getting pretty heated so I’m gonna lock the post till I can sort things out.

    Thanks

    • JacobCoffinWrites@slrpnk.netM
      2·
      1 month ago

      Okay yeah, I should have caught this before it got this far. I’m going to lock this post from here on out, remind everyone we’re all on the same side and want to reduce waste, and say no more ‘spychip’ posts for the foreseeable future.