Private Devices · Step 2

For your own devices.

Four short lessons applying the Green IT foundations to your household — laptops, phones, tablets that you own and use yourself. Each builds on the 4 R's framework you saw in Foundations Lesson 4 — but with concrete Luxembourg-specific resources, real prices, and decision rules you can apply this weekend.

4 lessons

~30 minutes total. Knowledge checks throughout, plus a final assessment for the Private Devices Ambassador certificate.

Private Devices lessons

Click any lesson to start. The order below is recommended — each lesson builds on the previous — but not enforced.

Lesson 1

Before You Buy

The greenest device is the one you don't buy at all. The second greenest is one that already exists. Refurbished retailers in Luxembourg, six checks before a private purchase.

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Lesson 2

Repair Smart

The 65 % rule, where to get help locally (Repair Cafés, iFixit), the repairs that pay back fastest, and what changes for you in 2026 with the EU Right to Repair Directive.

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Lesson 3

Make It Last Longer

Linux Mint and ChromeOS Flex when Windows support ends, offloading heavy work to the cloud, repurposing older devices into media centres, photo frames, kids' computers.

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Lesson 4

End of Life Done Right

Wiping data properly, donating to Digital Inclusion Luxembourg, when SuperDrecksKëscht / Ecotrel is the right route, and what "broken" devices are still worth.

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