Now imagine a company that said, «yes, after 5 years of intensive in-house use, we can assert with confidence that this is a good laptop. We are now pushing it out into production, is available for purchase.»
Now imagine that was mandated by law as part of both repairability and durability requirements, sending "planned obsolescence" into oblivion.
Frankly, that's how it should be. For clothes, washing machines, cars, anything that is manufactured and has a limited lifetime, yet shouldn't, or, its lifetime should be counted in decades, even in generations. Consumer society is only consuming ourselves and the planet we so dearly depend on.
Would the cost raise? On paper, no: would only be pushed some years into the future. In practice, the lack of a short-term incentive would prevent any laptop from being manufactured at all, so the cost might as well be infinite.
One wonders what can be done that is practical and implementable now to tame the madness and bring into the cost all the externalities – the latter should be the only source of additional costs, and would be minimized the longer the lifetime of a product is.
#ConsumerSociety #PlannedObsolescence #ConsumerMarket #externalities
What I kinda love about this is that all it means is a small group of antique computer nerds will likely coalesce to start maintaining a 486-compatible version from now on. It doesn’t mean everyone needs to prepare to throw away their old computers.
*glares meaningfully at Apple & Microsoft*
Linux is removing 486 support in the next version. My first Linux machine was a 486DX-33. That was so long ago (1995ish?).
Is Capitalism a Fraud? Caller Breaks Down the Endless Extraction Cycle
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If I told y'all that I got a working 2020-made laptop with i5-8265U, 8GiB RAM and 256GB nvme drive, super long battery life that was labelled in bright colors as "Junk" for less than 50 EUR, would you believe it?
Welcome to consumerist Japan, and its amazing 2nd hand aftermarket!
How they make it hard to fix this heater
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"Extended support for Windows 10 ends in 2026. Don’t buy a new PC — revive yours with Linux. It's fast, secure, and help is available to get you started."
🚨 New Video: I Ditched Razer for a 4-Year-Old Keyboard (And You Should Too)
Stop buying products designed to fail. After four years on the market, the Keychron Q1 proves that hardware should be a tool you own, not a disposable product you rent. In this video, I break down why I scrapped my Razer Huntsman Elite, a $200 piece of planned obsolescence, for a heavy, modular, and open-source aluminum chassis.
We dive into the hardware, the hot-swappable switches, QMK/VIA open-source firmware, and the three questions every piece of tech must answer before it earns a spot on my desk.
Is it repairable?
Is it modular?
Is it sovereign?
100% human made. #NoAI 
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First time I install LineageOS in years. Lenovo tablet that never got a single update since I bought it, and most apps on both play store and f-droid were incompatible thanks to the dreaded "Android 8 minimum apocalypse".
Now it has Android 11 and works again, so at least my parents won't need to buy a new one. Because I'm not playing their #PlannedObsolescence game when everything costs one kidney and half of the other thanks to first the AI ram shortage, and now two retards and a strait.
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