I’m still pretty firmly on team “salvage computing”. The world is drowning in discarded computers that still work just fine. Some of the work to be done in harvesting those resources is “just technical”, such as figuring out how to jailbreak locked-down devices, or doing the work of re-capping old power supplies to bring machines back to life. But I think there’s conceptual work to be done, too - lateral thinking. Not just keeping old machines alive for as long as possible, but coming up with fun and novel applications for those machine, thinking entirely outside the confines of their intended roles.

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