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I pirate like crazy, but I never understand how these sites can exist with how costly they must be

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[–] OwlPaste@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Are there reasonable places to get e-waste? one of my drives is skowly failing and id love to get some e-waste to rebuild the rsid storage

[–] ki9@lemmy.gf4.pw 2 points 11 hours ago

GovDeals.com in the us and canada

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 2 points 21 hours ago

Valid question, I've heard of people just dumpster-diving and getting computers with working components but I'm sure there's places that just wholesale old PC's from schools and businesses for cheap, presumptively after wiping them (one hopes).