• O Galdo@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    My laptop for home use is almost 15 years old. My desktop is almost 11 years old. My work laptop is 8 years old. Here they are talking about more modern and powerful equipment, defining them as obsolete. I don’t know, maybe we should start questioning if these consumption dynamics are a bit harmful.

    • TechnoBabble@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You’re right, but the vendors don’t support products very long, vulnerabilities stack up, safe batteries become expensive and hard to source, applications become incredibly bloated as they’re tailored for newer hardware, the power costs stop making sense…

      …and we can avoid all of that by getting a newer more feature rich machine every few years.

      Companies need to make ‘repair and upgrade’ the cheaper alternative before any sort of critical mass is going to get onboard with series reduce, reuse, recycle.

      So again, you’re right, but it’s a complex issue, especially in computing.

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            1 year ago

            browsers are not the only way to watch YouTube … mpv is older than most of his machines ;)

            but yeah - i get the point

            nevertheless there is a lot you can do with aged hardware - there are lots of desktops/windowmanagers which will happily run as well

            • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.world
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              1 year ago

              mpv is older than most of his machines ;)

              As someone who first started to load programs into his computer with a cassette tape recorder, I’m aware of that.

              browsers are not the only way to watch YouTube

              Between that and apps on a phone, nothing else comes even close in the percentage of usage for viewing a video on the internet.

              but yeah - i get the point

              Thanks. ]:D

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                1 year ago

                As someone who first started to load programs into his computer with a cassette tape recorder, I’m aware of that.

                so you’re older than his machines as well … see - they are not that(!) old ;) :D :D

                i love my thinkpad x1 3rd gen and wouldn’t swap it for anything until it crumbles to dust :D