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this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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I feel like most of these computers are underpowered and worthless to most people outside of a web browsing machine. Which is fine I guess if you don't have a computer at all. But when some of us are rocking six or seven computers in our house, do we need anymore?
There are lots of people who could use them. Schools, libraries, poor people.