Iāve been cleaning up my bedroom againāand this post is definitely not a way to procrastinate doing thatāso Iāve found a lot of things that I donāt really use or need anymore, but at the same time, I donāt feel comfortable just throwing them away.
Some are pieces of nostalgia that simply mean a lot to meāothers are simply outdated and unnecessary. I keep hoarding them though, and they take up space in my drawers.
When it comes to phones, my Poco F4 and my Mi 12T Pro have power buttons that arenāt working properly. I donāt know what to do with them, I could look into a repair shop to see if they can replace or clean up the hardware in some way, but for now they are still there gathering dust.
Another phone I got here is a Redmi Note 7 my mom owned but the display died after it got ruined by waterāthe display turns out but it is extremely dimāand the repair technician said he couldnāt do anything to it without replacing the whole motherboard, which seemed not worth the effort and the money for us. Another phone, this one with a broken display and a dead battery, would be a HiSense brand budget phone my sister used to have, that phone is more than 10 years old and not even working, why is it there?
Not to mention, all the cases, unused screen protectors and cables generated by these, to think about the ewaste kind of hurts, but alas.
How can I forget about my HTC Statusāor the ChaChaCha in some other countriesāone of my first devices that came with a keyboard included, and pretty sick design for its time. This one actually still boots super well! I remember installing emulators on it and mapping the buttons to the keys in the keyboard itself with a GBA layout, it made for a terrible dpadā¦
Speaking of which, I also have an original red Game Boy Advance SP. A lovely handheld console that I got around 2011 and that I only have 4 cartridges of. I have no reason to really use it over my current emulator and gaming devices, unless I wanted to play something straight from the cartridge itself, I guess, which I find highly unlikely.
I also have two desktop computers that are both more than 10 years oldāone of them is probably 20 years oldāin a corner of my bedroom, I canāt really bother myself to try and get them running, I think they have power supply issues, and extremely outdated hardware. I removed the hard drives from both of them to recover the data, but I donāt really have a purpose for them anymore.
I still have my old laptop around, the Lenovo Ideapad 510, and it works wonderfully well whenever I test to see if it still boots, I think I could turn that one into a pretty functional server, since it should offer me enough power to perform quite a bit of what I need it to. A while back I even updated my Fedora install on it like 5 versions in a day.
The Raspberry Pi 4 that I used for so many projects during my last semesters at University is also there, and that one is actually super dusty, I went to pick it upāit was still in the same place it has been since I was still using it as a local serverāand yeah, itās a complete mess with dust in every creviceā¦
Honestly, this is pretty much a collection at this point, even though I donāt display them neatly or anything, I canāt deny the amount of things I have unused, some of which even still works! Iāve been considering getting back into selfhosting, maybe this time using my old laptop, to have some extra juice and speed!
This makes me think about all the devices I still use, what is going to happen to them in 3 or 4 years, or 10, or 20? I still live with my parents, for example, how many of my things will they get rid of without me knowing, how much of it will I carry with me whenever I leave the house and go my own way? And when I move? When I have to make space for a bigger family of my own?
Some of these things I may be attached to today and forget about in a year, some I donāt care about right now may be around for a decade, but one thing is for sure: my PSP still lives, and I still canāt find my Hollow Knight map, what a tragedyā¦
This is day 20 of #100DaysToOffload
