DarkChocobo 3h ago

#StopKillingGames ayer estuvo en el Parlamento Europeo. Aparentemente solo ha habido oposición de Alex Voss(CDU) y quizás se ha encontrado a una nueva aliada con Katharina Barley(SPD).

La colaboración entre el Partido Pirata Europeo, Stop Killing Games, Does it Play y otros asociados. Donde destaco el gran esfuerzo de Alberto Hidalgo Cerezo, viniendo de nuestras tierras.

Al parecer, el parlamento europeo se ve favorable a lo que dice SKG.

Gracias a las firmas se ha conseguido este paso:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSla5vfGi3A

#Videojuegos #Videogames #PirateParty #PìratesEU #Plannedobsolescence

Stop destroying video games

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EvoScale2d ago

@sarahdalgulls Fossilizing from birth, is a form of #PlannedObsolescence.

Then again, my jokes aren't always blooming with effervescence.

ALLi Blog (unofficial)3d ago
News Summary: Amazon Ends Support for Early Kindle Devices; Two Million Readers Affected https://selfpublishingadvice.org/amazon-ends-support-for-early-kindle-devices/ #plannedobsolescence #deviceconnectivity #KindlePaperwhite #obsoletedevices #Kindlesupport #e-readers #Amazon #News
Amazon Ends Support for Early Kindle Devices

Amazon ends support for Kindle devices from 2012 and earlier effective May 20, 2026, affecting two million e-readers.

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DoomsdaysCW3d ago

So, it seems that the push toward efficiency is to benefit capitalists. Things used to take a long time to be made, and a long time to break (if at all). Make more things faster and cheaper means some CEO is making money, while the crappy products leave lasting pollution, and need to be replaced often, meaning CEO makes more money. That's #Crapitalism in a nutshell!

#BuildThingsThatLast !
#PlannedObsolescence is #KillingThePlanet !
#CapitalismSucks

Aliide4d ago

Inside my laptop power cable, wires form the Estonian flag 🇪🇪

#eesti #estonia #baltic #baltics #tech #plannedobsolescence

Michael J Burgess4d ago

Amazon cutting off older Kindles is a reminder that many “smart” devices are not really ours.

A reader that still works can lose store access, and after a reset some older models cannot even be re-registered. Then comes the trade-in push and the discount code.

That is not ownership. It is dependency by design.

How many devices do you actually own?

https://youtube.com/shorts/CYtdtqqma7A?si=PX4kjbCG-ESdVB1B

#Amazon #Kindle #DigitalOwnership #PlannedObsolescence #RightToRepair

A sad day for us kindle thrifters #ereader #booktok #kindle #kobolibracolour

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dallo6d ago

Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Amazon-Older-Kindles-can-no-longer-download-e-books-11247344.html

> They were cut off from the store some time ago, and now they can no longer download e-books either: Amazon is rolling back support for older Kindles.

#amazon #capitalism #gafam #enshittification #plannedObsolescence #booktodon #books

Amazon: Older Kindles can no longer download e-books

They were cut off from the store some time ago, and now they can no longer download e-books either: Amazon is rolling back support for older Kindles.

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Mr. VApr 10

The great dilemma:

Use an older version of Linux on an old PC so that it performs well on that hardware, or use a newer version to keep it current and as functional as possible, but paying the price of consuming more resources and losing performance...?

#linux #oldhardware #retrocomputing #plannedobsolescence

Carsten SpilleApr 9
Stellt euch mal vor, ihr könntet nach 14 Jahren keine neuen Bücher mehr in euer Bücherregal stellen. Oder auf eurem Sofa lesen oder oder oder. #plannedobsolescence vs. #digitalesouveränität

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zv657bpskxtjkvbdd5wymjam/post/3mj2cgomtp22d
Show threadAlbert CardonaApr 7

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