In the end everybody’s life is wasted. Of 120 billion or so humans who have ever lived only a couple of hundred thousand even have more than the most basic details recorded about them. In 100 years you will be a distant name, in 1000 more no one will know you ever existed. Just live however you are comfortable with and quit worrying about wasting it.

Old laptops have little resell value. They work well as low powered hobby servers though.

I feel like a traitor when I do. It has sucked all the enjoyment out of the website.