Comment on What type of laptop do you recommend for simply browsing the internet?

• Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I get my laptops from a city bureau.

  They sell old laptops of Helsinki public servants. The hard drives are very thoroughly emptied and Ubuntu is installed. It’s a kind of a workshop for unemployed people, with the purpose of keeping them used to the concept of work. They get a tiny bit of extra money atop their unemployment benefit by working there.

  This has all kinds of weird side effects, like how the actual buying process runs. Once you’ve decided what you want to buy, they print something akin to a receipt to you, and you need to walk some 100 metres or so to a wood workshop where they have a worker with a permission to handle money. You give them the receipt and money, and they give you back a other receipt to prove you have paid. And then you take that back to the shack made of corrugated metal that works as the computer shop, give the receipt to the guy there and carry your laptop home.

  At one point they were selling old laptops of the.fire brigade. They were built so that you could very well use them as a hammer 🐳

  Anyway, the shop is on the backyard of the Kyläsaari recycling centre in Helsinki. It closes at 15, so.it’s a little bit difficult to visit if you’ve got an eight to four job.

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  • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Interesting!

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