Subj : Re: Bake your graphics card?
To   : Otto Reverse
From : boraxman
Date : Wed Feb 23 2022 22:36:41

 OR> That must have been one sweet monitor. Those Trinitrons were some of the
 OR> best tubes (tv or monitor) out there.
 OR> 

It was gifted to my by a friend.  An office he was working at was getting rid of it.  It did have some discoloration in one corner, but it was the bees knees, and a space heater.

 OR> From the "Hi, we're from the government and we're hear to help" file. 
 OR> Seems to be universal the world over.
 OR> 

Meddling busybodies trying to make themselves useful.  Australia is good at being a nanny state.  Ban this, block that, prohibit this.  If something causes concern to someone in government, there'll be justification to curtain our freedom to make themselves feel better.

 OR> Yeah I've seen that here too. I always thought it was businesses
 OR> disposing of them and because they were once depreciable assets that
 OR> they got zero bucks for when they "disposed" of them, they cut the cords
 OR> to prevent a "scrounger" from getting any value out of it.  Petty indeed.
 OR> 

That might make sense, but these were in front of houses.  At the very least, the electronics could be recycled instead of ending up leeching into our oceans.

A company I worked at would just dump them in the skip.  I saw a stack of laptops, at least 10 high, working, just get thrown in there.

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