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  • The logical extremes of obsolescence

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    Oh hey there, fellow darners and intrepid blogworms! Obsolescence is quite the nice little earner for OEMs everywhere. They love seeing ordinary folks like us pop into shops buying their latest stuff. Throwing away perfectly usable things we otherwise can use for other tasks. And when we point out the vast mountains of waste growing…

  • What’s worth salvaging from dead & broken computers?

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    Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! Now, salvaging parts from dead, broken, or just obsolete computers is a good way to reduce e-waste. Often, it is one or two key components that break or die, while the others continue to work. There are inevitable moments when computers just go kaput. Whether it’s a component that…

  • Planned obsolescence – what is it all about?

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    Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! There’s a term that refers to the state of being that makes us favour new stuff and trends. Something that leads us to switch to new and better ways of working and entertaining ourselves. And what sometimes leaves us unable to keep old, but otherwise functioning everyday items going…

  • Getting creative with holding internal storage in place

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    Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! Now, sometimes when you buy a refurbished computer, it comes without caddies or screws for holding internal storage. Without them, they can rattle or loosely flop around inside when you carry it around. They may even become disconnected from SATA, M.2 or NVMe ports without warning when you put…

  • Missing feet? Try furniture pads! (BitFIXit QuickFIXits)

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    Hello fellow readers and fixers! Now, sometimes we lose rubber feet that we commonly see on desktop PCs and laptops. We risk dislodging them as we move them around. And they may drop off altogether when that happens. But furniture pads are useful as feet for our computers, just as we use them for our…

  • Upgrades on a shoestring

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    Hello again fellow readers and fixers! As the cost of living crisis continues to bite, making every penny count is more important than ever. It’s especially true when choosing how to upgrade our computers. We can keep our computers running for longer with more RAM or faster storage. We can upgrade to a newer refurbished…

  • Our media centre build: trying something else…

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    Hello again, fellow readers and fixers! Lately, we looked again at our media centre build, so that we can finish the project. We tried to position the Pine H64 single board computer within the external hard drive chassis. This is for making the ports we want to use easy to access. After some time, we…

  • External hard drive to media centre build: our project so far

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    Hello fellow readers and fixers! We have been working on a project that uses an external hard drive case as a media centre PC. But while it has been on the back burner lately, we’re still looking to finish the project! So let’s recap on where we’re up to at this time. How it all…