[justinclift]

Hmmm. I have an ancient dual Intel 3GHz Xeon Nocona (~2004 I think) with 5MB of RAM :) hanging around.

It's mostly used as a stand for other things (powered off, but has good case) left on top of it.

Although it runs, each of the two CPU's uses about 100w. And the whole thing running flat out is about as slow as an older model laptop.

There's no real use for this things computing power any more, except on the very rare occasion I need to spin up some OS and don't have other available computing gear handy.

So, the whole "all tools are useful" thing is only marginally true for very old computing stuff.

[fit2rule]

Not useful for you. And that is your right, duty and responsibility as a user, and owner of the hardware.

But there are tens of thousands of human beings within a few km's/clicks of you, I am willing to bet, who will find a use for that computer.

A lot of valuable things can be done with 100w, should a user choose to apply it.

[justinclift]

That's 100w per cpu.

eg this thing burns 200w continuously when on.

A raspberry pi 3b+ is likely around the same computing power, and burns a small fraction of it.

So, I really, really doubt it.

[fit2rule]

I could easily find 100 people who would find a use for your old computer. The effort is worth it.

[justinclift]

If you're serious, feel free to email me ([e-mail]) to make it happen. :)

Out of curiosity, what kind of things do you think people would use it for? Linux doesn't boot on it.

[justinclift]

As a data point, fit2rule didn't bother to email me.