this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2024
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Forced Obsolescence / Obsolescence by Design
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Chatter about forced obsolescence, including but not limited to:
- salvaging or repurposing abandoned / unsupported hardware
- name and shame culprits of obsolescence
- right to repair guidance and advocacy in situations involving obsolescence
- obtaining old software to drive old hardware, finding archives, building old binaries from source
related communities (decentralized only)
somewhat related to forced obsolescence:
- [email protected] - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
- [email protected] - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
- [email protected] - fix it, don’t replace it
- [email protected]
- [email protected] - exercise your right to fix stuff
- [email protected] - exercise your right to fix stuff
- [email protected] - sustainable technology
- [email protected] - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
- [email protected] - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
- [email protected] - To discuss waste avoidance
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Don't buy Lenovo. They're the dumbfucks who sold machines with the Superfish pre-installed malware back in the day.
Considering that Lenovo is the biggest computer manufacturer in the world, I don't think people care.