Enshittification
Welcome to Enshittification
A community for everyone who misspelt it as enshitification.
"I the onceler felt sad as I watched them all go, but business is business and business must grow, regardless of crummies in tummies you know."
This is your space to document the decay, demise, and destruction of the tech world as we know it. Share stories, articles, and firsthand experiences that capture the ongoing decline of once-celebrated platforms, services, and companies in the late stage capitalist landscape.
From monopolistic corporate shifts to anti-user updates and the relentless pursuit of profit over quality—if it’s broken, bloated, or just plain bad, it belongs here. We’re here to spotlight the moves that make the tech world worse, one piece of enshittification at a time.
Guidelines
🔹 Stay on Topic: Only post content about the decline of tech products, platforms, or companies.
🔹 Quality Content: Give some context when posting links or articles to drive quality discussions.
🔹 Respectful Discussion: Critique companies, crappy tech, and capital, not community members.
🔹 Positive Monday: The first Monday of every month is reserved for positive content only that shows enshittification isn't inevitable.
Join us to expose the changes that ruin the things we once loved and to discuss what comes next in a tech world gone wrong.
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Where's a good place for me to find cheap hardware? eBay? Something else? I have a couple projects I want to self host with
If you have a local e-waste recycling center, habitat for humanity, or similar, you should be able to find a decent laptop, which makes for a good homelab platform. A desktop with a somewhat recent CPU (Intel 6th gen at least, I would say) could also be a good option if you don't mind a bit higher idle power usage.
Otherwise, ebay is a good non-local option. If you don't need a lot of horsepower for what you'll be hosting, a complete Dell Wyse 5070 thin client can be picked up for about $40. They're super efficient little x86 machines that have an M.2 slot for an SSD and decent connectivity, and idle at around 6 watts.
If you need more power, you could step up to a retired office mini-PC. They usually draw around 10 to 12w idle from what I recall.
If you need even more power, and PCI slots, the 7th and 8th gen intel based office PC's are a bargain, like the Dell Optiplex 3050 SFF, Lenovo Thinkcentre M910s, or HP Elitedesk G3 or G4 SFF.