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

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Component Obsolescence Management (pcdandf.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Component obsolescence management is a newer discipline, requiring a strategic approach that identifies which parts of every product may become obsolete. And it involves continual monitoring of the availability of key components.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I think that article in itself is doing a bit of forced obsolescence. I cannot scroll down that link because there is a tug-of-war with something forcing the top of the article to snap back to the top of the screen.

(edit) it scrolled okay after leaving the tab and returning to it.

Anyway, hopefully right to repair laws will compel product makers to incorporate component obsolescence management.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At the very top of the page, around the middle, you should have visibility of a prompt saying Skip to content. Click on it and I suppose you'll see the article.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

i don’t see that.. maybe because I have images disabled. But the scroll started working after leaving and returning to the tab.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Cool, I see you found a workaround or something.