Recently I found out that there was a spring cleanup day in the town I am in. Lots of people put old items such as technology at their curb for the city to come and dispose of it. I am greedy so I got in my van and drove around town and filled up the whole van with computer parts. Then the next morning, I went out again (after having emptied the van) and found more.

I found a lot of good things including:

  • Dell USB C dock WD19 (300$ dock!!) in perfect condition
  • ASUS pro art pa246q (500USD monitor from 2011!!) in decent condition. Sometimes it refuses to turn on but after unplougging and replugging in, good. Great colours on the display
  • 3 other monitors
  • 3 computers (one of which is very old), all 3 work
  • 2 laptops, afaik none work…
  • a phone (samsung galaxy a71). seems to have a broken battery/charge controller, I am too cheap to buy one of those to test
  • 2 tablets, one is icloud locked… one is FRP locked (may be able to bypass later)
  • nintendo switch (broken, have yet to take apart)
  • 2 printers (one is hp laser printer, works perfectly. Ordered new third party toner and good as new), (one is broken hp inkjet)
  • Old 90s keyboard in MINT condition. It is bright white, not yellowed with age!!
  • webcam which works fine
  • lots of cables and other random junk.

Do I actually use these things???

All in all, it was a fun trip. I use two of the monitors as my main monitors here. One of them (the asus pro art) is very nice except for that sometimes it just refuses to turn on. I still am trying to troubleshoot that, but once it turns on, it works fine. The other one (a samsung one 1080p one) also works fine. I also use the dell dock which works very well. I needed a power supply for it, but I had one lying around.

One of the computer cases is a good early 2000s case for my windows xp build. That computer now has all of the parts except for the psu. I made a silly and did not realise that the psu I was planning to use did not have enough pcie connections for my monster 9800 gtx card.

The printer is also nice since I have temporarily moved away from home, and my parents still use my printer at home so I left it there. This new printer lets me keep that one at home, and have this one away.