Before you toss your old laptop onto the e-waste pile, turn it into a home server that can replace some of those ...

As time passes and you accrue more belongings, tech in particular, you may end up with a lot of unused old gear. You could trash it or recycle it the old-fashioned way, or you could repurpose it.

A brand new computer can cost hundreds, even thousands of dollars. But you don’t necessarily have to spend anything to get ...