EDIT: I don’t like the ableist parts though. I specifically meant the prescience of the “singularity” power fantasies that promise more comfort to already comfortable affluent techbros.
The “singularity” and related nerd rapture escapist power fantasies deserve to be mocked and tend to be comfort prophecies for the already comfortable.
Me going to my high school reunion solely to tell the jocks “You were right about everything. You were trying to help me.”
Although it’s something the comic touched up on a bit, I’m surprised there isn’t some businesses that’s all about repurposing e-waste. Just install ubuntu or something and then sell them for cheap.
I’m surprised there isn’t some businesses that’s all about repurposing e-waste. Just install ubuntu or something and then sell them for cheap.
there are some. Not enough, and probably way more outside the imperial core, but I’ve seen a few. I think it’s getting better as time goes on and tech iteration slows down. 10 years ago it would’ve been something of a struggle to run modern web pages on a 5 year old laptop, let alone an office suite, much moreso than using a 2019/2020 laptop today.
The bigger thing now I guess is the proliferation of people not even having a computer and just using their smartphone for everything. Smartphones are treated as an absolute essential, so people just suck it up and buy a new one when they can’t get any more life out of the old one, rather than adapting their usage. Mandatory app updates and built-to-fail batteries and other components just seal the deal
I tend to think of it as the other way around, like using “ooh so sleek and thin” as justification for the actual reasons but its probably just self-reinforcing in both directions
The full comic is even more prescient.
EDIT: I don’t like the ableist parts though. I specifically meant the prescience of the “singularity” power fantasies that promise more comfort to already comfortable affluent techbros.
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There’s clearly some weird self hatred going on there
I didn’t like the whole thing myself but the “singularity” dunk was well earned.
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I can see why the OP only used the first third
The rest starts ok then veers off into nonsense
That is the “starts ok” part
Agreed.
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I edited my earlier comment to clarify that I don’t like the ableism rant at the bottom either.
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Me going to my high school reunion solely to tell the jocks “You were right about everything. You were trying to help me.”
Although it’s something the comic touched up on a bit, I’m surprised there isn’t some businesses that’s all about repurposing e-waste. Just install ubuntu or something and then sell them for cheap.
There’s plenty of marketplaces that sell only refurbished electronics. It’s how I got my laptop.
there are some. Not enough, and probably way more outside the imperial core, but I’ve seen a few. I think it’s getting better as time goes on and tech iteration slows down. 10 years ago it would’ve been something of a struggle to run modern web pages on a 5 year old laptop, let alone an office suite, much moreso than using a 2019/2020 laptop today.
The bigger thing now I guess is the proliferation of people not even having a computer and just using their smartphone for everything. Smartphones are treated as an absolute essential, so people just suck it up and buy a new one when they can’t get any more life out of the old one, rather than adapting their usage. Mandatory app updates and built-to-fail batteries and other components just seal the deal
Yep, and the thinness of phones makes all this worse too
yeahhh
I tend to think of it as the other way around, like using “ooh so sleek and thin” as justification for the actual reasons but its probably just self-reinforcing in both directions
marketing
sales
The closest thing is recycling the gold from circuitboards.
Alright it’s too early in the morning to be personally attacked like this
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That part was
to me.
I mostly remembered the “singularity” dunk and its prophecy of additional comfort to already comfortable techbros.
Incredibly prophetic, I can’t believe it’s what, at least a decade old?