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e-waste go brrrrrrr (lemmy.ml)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 4 days ago (2 children)

That's the point. Most users don't know how to do that, can't be bothered to learn, so this laptop would have been e-waste under most other circumstances.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I think their confusion comes from OPs title.

Why is it "e-waste go brrrrrrr" when OP is presumably saying they're keeping this laptop out of the machine? _ machine go brr is a dumb meme in the first place, people using it the wrong way makes it even dumberer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Oh man I cannot stand it, it's a tolerable meme format at best when used correctly, but I find it insufferable when it's applied mindlessly like this

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 days ago

I assumed he picked it up from e-waste

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Yes but if a person uses a computer and doesn't want to learn stuff, issues that come from it are (at least partially) their fault.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Sure, but that's kind of a nonsequitur to the question of whether this would have ended up as e-waste.

A: Would this end up as e-waste?

B: It's the end-users' fault if it does.

A: Okay, so...would this end up as e-waste?

We don't literally know, because we can't predict the future, but we can be reasonably certain that old tech like this laptop would have become e-waste in the hands of your average user, regardless of whether they should have been expected to take the time to learn how to prevent that or not.