This world is such a terribly wasteful place...
There's a video going around of an iMac being through into a pile or ewaste and setting off a chain reaction of iMac like dominoes.
Outdated policies prevent working PCs or parts from being donated to institutions who may have ZERO equipment.
These could have been used as media players, for educational games, or to teach others how to repair electronics. š Ugh
Link to video: https://twitter.com/SwiftOnSecurity/status/1683979879065214976
@mac84tv @mmu_man Taylor is on Mastodon: @SwiftOnSecurity
Video is there: https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/110778206778534985
@kirb Yes, those are even more wasteful. Thankfully these are so old that none of that applies.
Itās a damn shame Apple doesnāt have some program where after 5 or 10 years those systems couldnāt be wiped and reclaimed.
@kirb @mac84tv I think MDM and activation lock should have a timeout at the five year mark. Once the machine is old enough that it's not really worth that much anymore, allow someone physically present to wipe it and remove it from MDM.
It wouldn't be hard for Apple to implement, and would give these machines a possible second life.
THAT SAID, these Macs don't support being activation locked; they're too old. They're being trashed for no good reason.
@zorinlynx Yep, it would be great - their process already securely wipes data on the system.
But all they care about is selling new systems. Until the right pressure gets put on them, they have no reason to consider such a program.
@mac84tv I think regulation is the way to go. Itās not a whole lot thatās being asked either.
I understand the locking thing, as a theft thing. But why couldnāt Apple themselves open them and sell them? Just donate any profits to environmental charities.
If they donāt want to keep supporting old MacOS with patches, how about a law that says you have to either support hardware or release the specs?
Also any product a company make, the should be responsible to recycle.
@mac84tv Or they could even have continued to see productive use as Linux machines.
I hate the power that corporations have.
@mac84tv Reminds me of people smashing guitars on stage:(
Know whatās badass? (to borrow a phrase from the aptly named Mac from IASIP) Giving it away to someone that would love and cherish it.
(I know some fake it and actually trash a very cheap guitar over and over again and have the guitar tech repair it good enough. But itās still so dumb, sends the wrong message.)
@mac84tv I saved a bunch of macs from a school's wastebins a few years back, including an imac like those*... It certainly feels wasteful, moore's law has slowed down to the point 2GHz machines are still usable.
* it was the ppc variant but hey, it still flies with sorbet leopard!
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