I've been an avid supporter of the green tech thinking. The technology we use every day has become one of the biggest contributor to the climate change.
Of course it's hard to live that path when you are also a technology enthusiast. There is always a new gadget or better, more powerful version of the ones you already have. Big part of the lifetime emissions of those things come from manufacturing and shipping. So longer you use them the more ecological they become.
For example laptops are used on average for 4 years. During that time the emissions of used electricity account roughly the same as the emissions from manufacturing and shipping.
At work we could get a new top of the line laptop every 3 years. Closing my 10 years anniversary there I could already be on my 4th laptop, but the one I'm still using is the second one I got from there, six years ago.
It has been working just fine and it's also still powerful enough for the tasks I use it for. Only problem it has id the battery life. It hasn't hold much of a charge for some time now. This wasn't a problem during the close to a 100% remote days when it just sat there on my desk plugged to the wall all the time. But now, when it would be nice to visit the office every now and then it would be nice to be able to carry it along without needing to shut it down every single time.
I could just have gotten a new laptop. The latest models would also offer quite a nice boost in performance compared to my old one...
Instead I just got a new battery.