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End Of 10 at #FOSDEM!
#KDEEco 's Call To Action against #eWaste driven by Windows
BoF *Sun 2 Feb 14:00* Room H.3242
Global #FreeSoftware campaign to raise awareness of #Windows 10 EoL and how independent software keeps devices in use & out of the landfill!
Same day just before, learn how #FOSS enables a circular digital economy *11:55-12:05* #Energy #DevRoom H.2214
#EndOf10 #OptGreen #KDE 
#OpenSource #Sustainability #Environment
A broken device won’t be running the default OS anyway.
The point of this is to take all the working hardware that is currently running a soon unsupported version of Windows, which can’t be updated to a supported one because the hardware does not support the newer version, and make it run supported software, so the user does not discard the hardware.
Folks! Let’s all stop trying! This random person on the Internet says it’s not worth it.
@be4foss @kde I bought an HP EliteBook G1 second hand for less than £200. It gave me 9 years of good service using Debian Linux and KDE before a keyboard failure prompted its retirement. I now have a Dell Latitude which seems fine so far. There's plenty of life in many old computers, but I would agree phones seem a harder problem to address.
I have this fella running with #siduction. Everything worked out of the box.
Tip. Exchange the HDD for an SSD in old devices uns the real fun never ends.
