> This is an interesting way of thinking! On one hand, all of my homelab servers now run on old AMD Athlon 200GE CPUs that would otherwise be considered e-waste in the eyes of some, but now run at 35W TDP and are enough for all of my CI/backup/development needs, in addition to being a cheap x86 option.
Precisely! You're using them, and following the 4 R's : reduce, reuse, repair, recycle. Not sending stuff to the scrapyard or landfill is always laudable.
I'm also wary and careful in not doing the bad environmentalist trope, by blaming the individual for small things when we have massive things that could be greatly scaled down. It's like in California, where people are being heckled in taking too long showers, all the while farmers there are trying to grow wetland foods and trees in the desert! It's literally dozens of gallons vs acre-feet of water.
I recently read that XCode 14 is bloating all iPhone packages compiled with that. It's stuff like that I'm looking at first, since that contributes to manufactured obsolescence due to bloated storage reqt and wasteful uneeded code. Its those things at massive scale I'm looking at.