@simontsui They’ve lost the source code, haven’t they? 🫤 This is why we need a law to force source code into the public domain when companies cease to maintain products.
#reducedLifecycle

@landley ...and they take pride designing hardware with a #ReducedLifecycle due to soldering-down inevitably failing equipment like #SSD|s and #RAM ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbrLiGY4Cg ), riveting in #Keyboards ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1Purem1NF0 ) and espechally glueing in #Battieries ...

And they've veen on that trajectory for decades!!!
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8 )

@fasnix @necrosis Ja, bei den älteren konnte der RAM komplett getauscht werden...

Was gut isf weil der geht auch mal kaputt...

Richtig #ReducedLifecycle.ist das auflöten der #SSD - das gehört IMHO verboten weil #AntiRepairDesign!

@moth @j0 Also this is the reason why one should NEVER EVER allow or use #proprietary and/or #SingleVendor/ #SingleProvider standards at all…
To me, shit like this should be #outlawed as the #ReducedLifecycle and purposeful creation of #eWaste it is amd #manufacturers as well as #Microsoft should be forced to #FLOSS #drivers for all platforms (not just #Windows but espechally #Linux) or be forced to not only refund everyone but pay the cost of buying a #ValveIndex on top…
https://lethallava.land/notes/9nixc25el128gb0s
minecraft j0 (@j0)

windows just [deprecated](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/whats-new/deprecated-features#deprecated-features) windows mixed reality. thousands of headsets are going to become bricked. open source drivers ([monado](https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/monado/monado)) do not fully support WMR. they are still selling WMR headsets like the Reverb G2. there is no refund policy. the only way to use WMR is to never upgrade your windows install. fuck microsoft.

Lethal Lava Land

@MattKC The only thing worse are #GluedInBatteries, #SolderedDownRAM and espechally #SolderedInSSDs...

Those three things should be illegal as #ReducedLifecycle & #AntiRepairDesign...

@cancel so on top of having intemtionally unupgradeable hardware and unrepairable flash by virtue of soldering down the SSD as a part that'll inevitably wear over use they literally commit themselves to accelerate the #ReducedLifecycle by virtue of introducing added wear & tear...

Someone should tell #LouisRossman about it...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0qbrLiGY4Cg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYG4VMqatEY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MANlo9fV9yI

@marcan I do hope @EU_Commission makes #replaceability of #SSDs and #Batteries - the latter one #ToolFree - mandatory sooner than later...

After all, I got a VAIO #P11Z and that thing had a #ToolfreeeSwappable Battery back then already, so it's not as if that's "impossible" for #Apple to do - they just chose to artifically go with #ReducedLifecycle and turn their #envoirmentalism in meaningless "Virtue Signalling" and pure Marketing Lies...

https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/111337998791280738

Hector Martin (@[email protected])

@[email protected] Your argument is for not soldering down SSDs, not for having a separate flash. Apple machines *do* have a separate flash for the bootloader, it just can't boot from anything but internal storage for security reasons. Nobody runs machines with a dead SSD from USB, what they do is replace the SSD. The non-replaceable SSD is the problem, not the firmware/USB situation. Also can you please stop making every second word a hashtag? I swear it is extremely cringe. I know the Fediverse relies on hashtags more, but not like *that*. That is just irritating visual noise.

Treehouse Mastodon

@pretz This is just #Apple accelerating their #PlannedObsolescence aka. #ReducedLifecycle on #iPad, #iOS & #macOS...

So that their consoomers buy new shit...

@mpospese it's #PlannedObsolescence / #ReducedLifecycle by #Apple...

Mostly the #GPU is limiting...

Consider putting @ubuntu #UbuntuLTS #Linux on legacy devices to keep them useful...