• GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml
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    10 hours ago

    Yes but if a person uses a computer and doesn’t want to learn stuff, issues that come from it are (at least partially) their fault.

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      9 hours ago

      Sure, but that’s kind of a nonsequitur to the question of whether this would have ended up as e-waste.

      A: Would this end up as e-waste?
      
      B: It's the end-users' fault if it does.
      
      A: Okay, so...would this end up as e-waste?
      

      We don’t literally know, because we can’t predict the future, but we can be reasonably certain that old tech like this laptop would have become e-waste in the hands of your average user, regardless of whether they should have been expected to take the time to learn how to prevent that or not.