If it no longer is supported by software, it’s no longer perfectly good. Certainly, if you want to spend your time on supporting unsupported hardware based on personal belief, that’s a choice, and it’s your time. Compare to the cost of replacing the hardware. Time is not free, it is the ultimate non renewable resource. We are all slowly dying one day at a time, is that how you want to spend your time?
Recycle old gear when the math no longer maths and move on.
>We are all slowly dying one day at a time, is that how you want to spend your time?
Mindless consumption isn't going to extend your life.
Tinkering and building for fun brings joy, joy is the point of life. Tinker mindfully. “Tinker and build what matters, to you.”
In general I agree, but recycling old power hungry gear may be better for the environment in the long term.
So discard a working and perfectly good Macbook to be replaced by a new one manufactured by the World’s #1 CO2 emitter and transported probably halfway around the world in a container ship burning dirty bunker fuel.
Per unit costs are pretty low, and old Intel gear particularly energy guzzling.