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[The Guardian] - Say hello to longlife tech that can challenge our throwaway culture

https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/1464272

[The Guardian] - Say hello to longlife tech that can challenge our throwaway culture - SDF Chatter

Jul 30, 2023 at 8:16pmWeb
Show threadSandesptJul 30, 2023
Unfortunately, as the article states, these are still expensive alternatives. People will not go that way of a cheaper, faster version exists. I think eu regulation will help increase standards of maintainability though
Show threadunix84Jul 30, 2023

Agreed. At this point, those of us who want to support sustainable companies are not nearly enough to swing the pendulum. There is no incentive for carriers or manufacturers to produce and support longer lasting devices.

Solving the problem will require regulation.

Show threadjmcunxJul 31, 2023

The other thing missed is laptops manufactured within the past 10 years will meet most people’s needs, so no need to purchase new if there is no hardware issues.

And I wish they mentioned the TPM2 requirement Microsoft is forcing on people, that could generate a lot of ewaste.

Show threadu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)Jul 31, 2023
If only they were made such that they could be easily cleaned and upgraded. I got an old laptop for free because it was extremely slow which made it unusable.
After removing the dust carpet it ran pretty well again. (although I still later upgraded RAM, CPU, and HDD to SSD) Unfortunately it finally gave out, but it got me 3 extra years, in total going 16!
Edit: That is not a factorial:)