Re: Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?

On 5/23/25 10:18, Scott Lurndal wrote:

 To elaborate.  Batteries are collected by retailers (drop 'em off at Ace Hardware).
The solid waste company that picks up the trash provides 5gal jugs
for used motor oil and bags for used filters (which can also be dropped
off at any auto parts store).   Paper, plastic, metals (other than styrofoam)
are collected and recycled.   Old electronics are recycled.  Office supply
stores accept used printer ink cartridges.   Best buy accepts electronics
for recycling as do various recyclers that offer drop-off locations.
 

Here, Staples will take most stuff for recycling though they charge for
computer monitors.
Apple takes Apple stuff.  I recyled an old PPC mini, and a 2010
mini that I had installed ChromeOS Flex on though it was too slow.
Way to hard to replace the hdd with an ssd on the 2010 mini.
ChomeOS Flex is a nice way to keep old hardware running if you
can put in an ssd.  I installed on a old Lenovo laptop that even
Linux complained it was going to stop supporting the cpu.  So
now it's a chromebook, a really heavy chromebook.
I had a chromebox and a chromebook that had gone out of update support,
the old 5 year support.  You have to replace the firmware on those which
is a one shot try deal (unless you have an eeprom programmer).  I
bricked the chromebox (I think I know why) but the chromebook worked.
Sort of weird since the OEMs just weasel out of supporting stuff that
still works.  They should be forced to take back stuff that still
works and that they won't provide firmware updates for.
You can also upgrade those windows 10 boxes that MS says can't be
upgraded to windows 11.  I upgraded a really old box that didn't even have TPM modules.  There's articles online on how to do that.
Joe Seigh