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38 points

if you wanted to run macOS on this then yes, it would definitely be ewaste

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I personally don’t share the same definition of e-waste. Having to install Linux, a custom ROM or modded software to make the machine fully usable doesn’t make it complete e-waste imo. Conputer users should have technical knowledge to do stuff like that.

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That’s the point. Most users don’t know how to do that, can’t be bothered to learn, so this laptop would have been e-waste under most other circumstances.

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I think their confusion comes from OPs title.

Why is it “e-waste go brrrrrrr” when OP is presumably saying they’re keeping this laptop out of the machine? _ machine go brr is a dumb meme in the first place, people using it the wrong way makes it even dumberer.

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Yes but if a person uses a computer and doesn’t want to learn stuff, issues that come from it are (at least partially) their fault.

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My parents (who are nearly 70-year-old computer users, by the way, and threw away their 2010 Apple laptop in 2015 because it essentially stopped functioning) absolutely don’t have the technical knowledge to do something like this. I think you may be vastly overestimating the average user.

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Conputer users should have technical knowledge to do stuff like that.

It’s not the 80s anymore. Normies are using computers now.

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Which is pretty unfortunate tbh.

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6 points

Tell that to corporate

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