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  • I knew this would happen...

    From poindexter FORTRAN@1337:3/178 to All on Monday, December 01, 2025 08:53:12

    I did my once-a-decade e-waste run, tossed out all of my old routers (with the exception of my WRT54G, which I want to make into a Raspberry Pi case...)

    I have a wifi dead zone in my house in my kid's room. I thought about running powerline adapters to the space and setting up a crappy router as an AP.

    BUT THEY'RE ALL GONE.

    Oh, well - I should pick up a cheap wifi 6 router today.
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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, December 04, 2025 08:40:53
    On 01 Dec 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

    I did my once-a-decade e-waste run, tossed out all of my old routers
    (with the exception of my WRT54G, which I want to make into a Raspberry
    Pi case...)

    Ah a good de-cluttering, how did that feel?

    I have a wifi dead zone in my house in my kid's room. I thought about running powerline adapters to the space and setting up a crappy router
    as an AP.

    BUT THEY'RE ALL GONE.

    Aha! That's how it felt. :/
    What will you do now?

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    ... 24 hours in a day and 24 beers in a case. Hmmmm...

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1337:3/178 to MeaTLoTioN on Thursday, December 04, 2025 07:01:26
    MeaTLoTioN wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-

    I have a wifi dead zone in my house in my kid's room. I thought about running powerline adapters to the space and setting up a crappy router
    as an AP.

    BUT THEY'RE ALL GONE.

    Aha! That's how it felt. :/
    What will you do now?

    I have a great thrift store near me with a computer and electronics
    section. I'll keep my eye out for a cheap router.

    (My office router/AP was $5, a Netgear R8000. You have to keep checking
    back, though, you never know what they're going to get.)



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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to poindexter FORTRAN on Friday, December 05, 2025 08:35:17
    On 04 Dec 2025, poindexter FORTRAN said the following...

    I have a great thrift store near me with a computer and electronics section. I'll keep my eye out for a cheap router.

    (My office router/AP was $5, a Netgear R8000. You have to keep checking back, though, you never know what they're going to get.)

    Ah that's cool, I'm sure there's always a bargain to be had in those stores. We don't seem to have any "thrift" stores like that in the UK, we can't give electronics to any charity shops and they aren't allowed to sell them as any electronics have to be disposed of as e-waste which is a crying shame oftentimes.

    I think charity shops would need a special licence in order to receive and sell such items which is probably why none or hardly any sell things like that.

    Boot fairs are pretty much the only way I can think of to get electronics like that, and they don't happen everywhere and often, usually early Sunday mornings in the spring/summer/autumn at random School fields or similar.

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  • From Errol Casey@1337:3/194 to MeaTLoTioN on Thursday, December 11, 2025 17:10:35
    Re: Re: I knew this would happen...
    By: MeaTLoTioN to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Dec 05 2025 08:35 am

    Boot fairs are pretty much the only way I can think of to get electronics li
    Never heard of a "boot fair" sounds fun though.

    Kinda like a weekend yard sale.

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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@1337:3/178 to Errol Casey on Saturday, December 13, 2025 07:50:01
    Errol Casey wrote to MeaTLoTioN <=-

    Boot fairs are pretty much the only way I can think of to get electronics li
    Never heard of a "boot fair" sounds fun though.

    Kinda like a weekend yard sale.

    I believe boot fairs are an English term - bunch of guys parked in a
    lot selling items out of the trunk of their cars.

    The computer fairs in the San Francisco area were interesting back in
    the '80s. We had many PC stores that sold components and custom built
    computers for less than the name brand computers out there, and on the
    weekends they'd have fairs at some exhibit hall, stores would set up
    folding tables, usually offloading crap at great discounts (along with
    some of the premier stuff there, too). If you wanted to build your own
    PC, they were great.

    I recall seeing lots of used hard drives, hard drives with known
    defective sectors, used DIP RAM - without returns, of course. I ended
    up getting a 286 motherboard, buying DIP RAM, and upgrading an XT. For
    a kid who'd never seen the inside of a computer before, it was a
    nail-biting experience.



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  • From MeaTLoTioN@1337:1/101 to Errol Casey on Saturday, December 13, 2025 20:09:55
    On 11 Dec 2025, Errol Casey said the following...

    Re: Re: I knew this would happen...
    By: MeaTLoTioN to poindexter FORTRAN on Fri Dec 05 2025 08:35 am

    Boot fairs are pretty much the only way I can think of to get electroni
    Never heard of a "boot fair" sounds fun though.

    Kinda like a weekend yard sale.

    Boot fairs are where people wanting to sell stuff drive their wares to a local field, designated for the boot fair, and open their boots (what you call trunks) and sell whatever they have from their boot, usually setting up a table and putting the stuff on those (think wall papering table)

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