2nd summary: The first rule of PC restoration club is: while i<3 goto wait, that doesn't work.

I'm not complaining about the disposable nature of electronics (at least not here). The replacement of parts or the whole with or without warranty is widely accepted as economically whatever.

However, while there are people who relish tackling a 10,000-piece jigsaw of Everest or solving a Rubik's cube blindfolded underwater*, I posit that there are people who would endeavour to restore a dead laptop, purely for the joy.

"But, that's not an idea" I hear you type. But, I repost, but...

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*As Rubik's cubes have neither eyes nor lungs, I fail to see the challenge.

NOTE: POST NOT FINISHED YET, SO DON'T ANNO. I'VE ALREADY LOST IT TWICE BECAUSE OF CLUMSY MOBILE SWIPING, SO SAVING AND EDITING OFTEN NOW.
-- marklar, Aug 23 2024

My nephew already does this, I gave him a dead laptop and he spent weeks trying to hack into it to get all the different bits working.

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-- pocmloc, Aug 24 2024


A group of such people would be though.

I accidentally hired a savant.

He's never gone to school and lived his whole life home-schooled living in a bus with his mother.
We've ripped apart and rebuilt every machine on this property. He just understands electrical and mechanical things intuitively. When we had to cannibalize the last washing machine for the mechanical parts to fix the brains of the first two machines he goes;

"You know... I could just Arduino this machine and give it a computer brain." I'd never heard the term Arduino before.

I said; "If you can do what you just said then you can do then I will buy anything you need and just continue setting tile and doing the grunt work."

That machine now has settings over and above the original 1984 machine it once was.

I am going to create a Makers-Group... for him.
I can't head up one. I'm a grunt, but I know talent when I see it and the amount I've learned from his brilliance and the amount he's learned from my grunt, (hopefully somewhat reciprocal), will lead to something awesome.

He would be totally into this idea, so. (+)
-- 2 fries shy of a happy meal, Aug 26 2024


I have an old PC that is frozen at the startup screen after a failed upgrade to windows 10. It was a good computer and I would prefer to keep it running for the nostalgia alone. It's probably a simple fix (reinstall windows) and it would have been nice to have someone else to encourage me to fix it instead of simply buying a new one (what I did).
-- sninctown, Aug 29 2024



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