if the electronics section at the recycle area of the transfer station let you just take stuff it might be a bit better but I'd wonder how much the labour is worth. The electroplating guy at one of my old jobs tried doing it by buying bulk gold plated ewaste and it was break even at best even with the cheaper prices he could get with the chem supplier at work. I remember him being disappointed with how much plating he could do with the recovered gold from a uline garbage bin of clipped pcb ends.
It's just that our customers don't need DDR3 anymore.
The RAM also wasnt touched in >2-3 years so it got a new life (and in theory most of the modules still work if you remove the hot glue.
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Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works · 72 pts · 254d
Still feels like a flex
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 254d
Kinda is.
Defective RAM and PCBs with gold contacts still seem to go for 100-150€ per kg.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 254d
It's an office though - not as if one person is sitting on all that RAM.
ScrambledEggs@lazysoci.al · 68 pts · 254d
Those were good memories
TheRealKuni@piefed.social · 30 pts · 254d
theherk@lemmy.world · 39 pts · 254d
How did you miss “Christmem Tree”?
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 21 pts · 254d
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sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 254d
┬──┬ ノ( ゜-゜ノ)
theherk@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 254d
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┬─┬ ︵ /(.□. ）
sanguinepar@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)
Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net · 35 pts · 254d
That's like $10k right there
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 254d
True that.
I shopped around on ebay for trashed/defective ram. It was about 100-150€ per kg.
And the tree weighs about 3-4kg
And that's supposedly only for the "gold" in the modules.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 254d
if the cost of chemicals didnt fully offset the value of the reclaimed gold I'd be dissolving that shit off PCBs every day
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 254d
That's what I was also wondering.
But consider the stupid amount of pcbs in electronics some have hoarded in the basement, buying the chemicals probably isnt that far of.
Grass@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 254d
if the electronics section at the recycle area of the transfer station let you just take stuff it might be a bit better but I'd wonder how much the labour is worth. The electroplating guy at one of my old jobs tried doing it by buying bulk gold plated ewaste and it was break even at best even with the cheaper prices he could get with the chem supplier at work. I remember him being disappointed with how much plating he could do with the recovered gold from a uline garbage bin of clipped pcb ends.
blinfabian@feddit.nl · 30 pts · 254d
"when i win the lotery there will be signs" type stuff
SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 254d
Soup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
Except we’re getting there lol
aeronmelon@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 254d
“O DIMMmas Tree, O DIMMmas Tree. How lovely is your bandwidth.”
Glifted@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 254d
I'm still using DDR3 😞
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 254d
Nothing wrong with that.
It's just that our customers don't need DDR3 anymore.
The RAM also wasnt touched in >2-3 years so it got a new life (and in theory most of the modules still work if you remove the hot glue.
MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io · 3 pts · 254d
Me too. I just upgraded my 10yo laptop to 16GB last year. 😂
mvirts@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
Me too! Lol what do I need fast ram for anyway? Slow builds are more of a feature every day that goes by.
Kabutor@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 254d
9point6@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 254d
I mean, you could attach a pi (and a Kafkaesque combination of USB hubs and adapters) to run a ramdisk make a sort of scratch disk ChristNAS