UngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 11 months agoBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comexternal-linkmessage-square297fedilinkarrow-up1792arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up1792arrow-down1external-linkBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comUngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 11 months agomessage-square297fedilinkfile-text
There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
minus-squareBellaDonna@mujico.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoPhones shouldn’t be disposable either, I’m coming up on five years on mine.
minus-squareboonhet@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoThey shouldn’t be, but they’re designed to be, especially Androids with their abysmal software support period.
minus-squareBellaDonna@mujico.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoI guess mine is unusual then. I still get very regular security updates, and battery life though noticeably shorter, well, it’s still okay.
Phones shouldn’t be disposable either, I’m coming up on five years on mine.
They shouldn’t be, but they’re designed to be, especially Androids with their abysmal software support period.
I guess mine is unusual then. I still get very regular security updates, and battery life though noticeably shorter, well, it’s still okay.