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Cake day: June 12th, 2023

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  • My biggest gripe about non replaceable components is the chance that they’ll fail. I’ve had pretty much every component die on me at some point. If it’s replaceable it’s fine because you just get a new component, but if it isn’t you now have an expensive brick.

    I will admit that I haven’t had anything fail recently like in the past, I have a feeling the capacitor plague of the early 2000s influenced my opinion on replaceable parts.

    I also don’t fall in the category of people that need soldered components in order to meet their demands, I’m happy with raspberry pis and used business PCs.









  • I have the following count from what I could gather, if you’re not in one of these states/jurisdictions and you are in the United States, I would encourage you contact your local state attorney general and encourage them to take part.

    • New jersey
    • Massachusetts
    • California
    • Colorado
    • Connecticut
    • Delaware
    • Hawaii
    • Maine
    • Maryland
    • Michigan
    • Minnesota
    • Nevada
    • New Mexico
    • New York
    • North Carolina
    • Rhode Island
    • Vermont
    • Wisconsin
    • New Hampshire
    • Washington
    • Illinois
    • Oregon
    • Arizona

    Extras:

    • Washington, DC
    • San Francisco, CA


  • If you don’t need a laptop, I’ve been having a blast with using mini/micro/tiny business PCs off of eBay. I’ve had zero issues installing Debian on them, and they’re designed to be easy to maintain by IT departments, so Wi-Fi, storage, RAM, and even CPUs are all replaceable. They are mobile CPUs, so if you need the heavy lifting of desktop CPUs, you’d probably need to go with a larger form factor.