If you ever wondered what the inside of your computer monitor looks like, here you go. I’m trying to get into micro-scrapping, so the PCB is the most interesting part to me. I think e-waste is still a huge issue, so I’m going to be trying to find some second hand stores that can’t sell their old electronics for good deals. Anyone have any other recommendations for the best way to acquire small amounts of high value e-waste that would be sent to a landfill in the Chicago area?
This got deleted on https://lemmy.world/c/technology because the moderators are shitheads. Lemmy is slowly becoming a lot like Reddit, where the main subreddits are gatekept shitholes with only prescribed post types.
Lmao, the entire point of communities/subreddits is to only allow prescribed post types. One of the problems with reddit is that the major subs don’t apply that rule harshly enough and now every major sub is just the same as the next with spammed karma farming bs that has nothing to do with the subreddit it’s posted in.
In OPS defense, I don’t see anything in the rules there that this would violate
- Follow the lemmy world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
Not news or an article 🙃
An electronics or repair focused community would be a more appropriate fit
This is a great example of one of the limitations of this system and why many people don’t bother posting or commenting.
No, it’s a great example of it working. You posted a non-news post in a news-only community. The post getting taken down and you finding a more appropriate community to post in is the correct outcome. It’s not a slight against you or the post, it just doesn’t belong there.
They should have called it Technology News then.
I mean… the Reddit Weed community is called “Trees”, and the Reddit Trees community is called “Marijuana Entusiasts”.
You are never going to get a perfect distillation of a community by its name. You are always going to need to at least scan the rules to learn about a community.
What do you intend to do with the scrapped parts?
Micro scrap, sort, and store the pieces. To serve as a basis for finding more e-waste and doing the same process. In the future, if I accumulate enough, then I’ll find someone to buy the sorted parts.
In my city there are a few auction houses that occasionally work with school/government IT to auction off old hardware. For instance, there’s often whole pallets of old/broken monitors in lots that go for a few dollars.
