Concept:
Instead of people buying electric space heaters, they could buy outdated computers for a similar price, then set them up running things like prime95 or folding at home. The power consumed would be the same, as would the heat generated, but they'd be keeping electronics out of the land fill, and running research calculations at the same time!

I might still be a little salty about this cluster fuck.

"3G is shutting down to free up frequencies for 5G. All phones must support 4G LTE, and Voice over LTE (VoLTE)to make phone calls"
3G and 5G use such mindbogglingly different frequencies, I can't even. And "4G LTE"??? LTE is defined as 3.9G... And the fact that phone calls, on the cellular phone technology that is "4G LTE", contradiction that it is, was such an after thought, that many "4G LTE" phones doen't support the technology to make calls over the network is just... Fuck it all. Just fuck

"4G LTE has provides better battery life than 2G and 3G" I've had phones that reccomend using 2G for best battery life. And indeed, every 2G and 3G phone my family has had got _days_ of battery. We got four basic VoLTE phones. The battery life _sucks_. one day on the worse, about two days on the best.

And a town that needed one 2G tower, would need three 3G, six 4G, and one tower _per block_ for 5G.

FUCK. IT. ALL.

@urusan VGA, DVI, PS2, PCI, Nano, 80 column rule, DIP chips, etc etc