Jae9h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Edent/116367891507649986

The bit that boils the blood here is the way they specifically say "14 to 18 years after their initial launches", like they're reproaching customers for hanging onto their old kit for so long, when what they're actually doing is intentionally breaking products that were still working, to force people to buy new ones

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A lesson they've presumably learned from Microsoft's conversion of tens of millions of perfectly functional laptops into landfill last year (and *yes*, I *know*, you could install Linux instead, and that's precisely what I've done with our laptop in that category, but let's get real about what happened to most of those laptops)
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Show threadHollieK7h ago
@considermycat I've just bought a new computer because my last one won't update to Windows 11. Just had to check what generation Kindle Paperwhite I had, but at least that's not on the list.