This week I’m refurbishing a 15+ yr old computer which was stalling on windows 10 and got abandoned. Currently making a huge backup to an Icy box (the self built variant of a wd passport or similar).
On wednesday, a friend comes over and we’re repasting the old i5. I might add some ram and a better but used cpu later which should give this thing another 10 yrs as a server. The mainboard is full of features and would accept a 4 core with 8 threads and 16 GBs of DDR3. Nothing to play recent games on but maaaaany docker containers will run on this baby! :)
Let me know what you’re doing to spit on consumerism and built-for-the-landfill-economy.
Reminder: I made a petition on change.org to make consumer electronics manufacturers open their devices after they stop supporting them. Please sign it, your support is needed.
I get the resignation most people have about this, I agree that they likely couldn’t break free or upend the system itself so they feel they might as well surrender to it.
This is really sad I think. I think with enough collective push things could change direction, even if it would be like adjusting the heading on a supertanker.
Absolutely. It is why this community exists. btw. have you seen my petition on change.org about devices being forced open after support ends? That would change the world. Feel free to sign it. We need people to sign it so others even see it. It would mean a lot.
Kinda proves the problem, and my point, when the first thing I see when I click that link is Facebook and Google logins.
Totally agree with your point, still doesn’t feel right to sign a petition which relates to a political system where I’m not subject to the jurisdiction of that system.