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minus-squareFlamekebab@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·9 days agoOh! Ewaste! So kind of you…
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days ago“E waste?” In the early 90s?!? LMAO! I’m not sure exactly what happened to it, but death by firing squad, followed by incineration, and then repurposed into lead paint or used as seasoning at an elementary cafeteria would be par for the course back in those days.
minus-squareFlamekebab@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·9 days agoOr sitting in a cupboard off-gassing, oozing, and generally making the home a safer environment. It does remind me of the Acts of Gord’s use for an N64 - as a doorstop with a note saying “This is all I am good for.”
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 days agorrod Xbox 360 has entered the chat
minus-squareFlamekebab@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down3·9 days agosmothers it with a towel and stuffs it into an oven
minus-squareGeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 days agoI paid rent for a while in 2010 by getting people to pay me to make their 360 work again. Those were the days.
Oh! Ewaste! So kind of you…
“E waste?” In the early 90s?!? LMAO!
I’m not sure exactly what happened to it, but death by firing squad, followed by incineration, and then repurposed into lead paint or used as seasoning at an elementary cafeteria would be par for the course back in those days.
Or sitting in a cupboard off-gassing, oozing, and generally making the home a safer environment.
It does remind me of the Acts of Gord’s use for an N64 - as a doorstop with a note saying “This is all I am good for.”
rrod Xbox 360 has entered the chat
smothers it with a towel and stuffs it into an oven
I paid rent for a while in 2010 by getting people to pay me to make their 360 work again. Those were the days.