We are surrounded, in our daily life, with devices that have a strong link with cloud infrastructure. Those devices, while still completely operational, can become a useless piece of hardware if the vendor stop the infrastructure for any reason. This aims at discussing how to give a second life to such devices using the practical use case of the EV chargers of the Belgian company PowerDale which went on bankrupt in July 2023. We will discuss the successes and failures of our journey, how a community of enthusiasts manages to build workarounds and what could be our community contribution.