When a technology becomes defunct it should be made obsolete

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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This is what happened to the Internet.

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Does it count if I run a PREEMPT-RT system inside a hypervisor as well as a regular system, both share the same system but has dedicated cores and RAM areas? This is a high end product I have been working on for the last two years at workā€¦

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I am currently doing this across the sprawl of PCs I have, and I very much understand the ā€œoh no, this is turning into Lainā€™s bedroomā€ feeling. Pile of laptops, some old desktops, consumer NAS boxes, etc.

But Iā€™m also on month 9 of the ā€˜year of linux challengeā€™. A certain amount of trying things out is kinda to be expected. Fortunately most of them are apt-based distros (Ubuntu, Pop!_OS, Proxmox, Debian, TrueNAS, etc. etc.). The one that isnā€™t is a NixOS project box that Iā€™m having second thoughts about. On one hand, setting it up should only suck the once. On the other handā€¦ climbing past the proverbial cliff into the happy place with it is likely to take some time.

But the weekend project was to start consolidating down, and decommissioning and/or scrubbing drives on some of the boxes that just donā€™t have the compute I need. They can either make someone else happier, or in a few cases are likely heading for recycling.

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I do a lot of buying to play around with hardware. Iā€™m planning on donating everything I canā€™t cram into a pair of servers and my main rig to my local trade school IT class.
Including:
many random office PCs of varying age, hard drives, ddr3 and ddr4 ecc etcā€¦

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The problem with making obsolete is the fact that it keeps retail prices high.
Sure its good for the stockholders and retail outlets, but consumers suffer for it.
In a world of rampant inflation keeping equipment running longer by minor upgrades. Makes a lot more economic sense.
Then theres the durability factor to consider.
Newer technology tends to be much smaller and consume less power.
But is not user repairable, produces more
e-waste, and is far more vulnerable to esd.

You want to recycle? Thats good but where you take it for recycling, how are they processing it?
How many toxic elements are released into the environment when they are recovering precious metals?

No making useable items obsolete is irresponsible and unethical in the very least sense of the word.

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