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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by scbzzzzz on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:12AM (#37519140)
I am really heartbroken by your response, I always feel the world/society should fight planned obsolescence. people/planet over profits. and then I see a person responding with a joke (I hope you don't mean it) when we(society) have means to make products last but some corporation chose profits against it and then greenwash with 5min mother earth videos. I know you are aware/heard of planned obsolescence. some people complain, these corporations have to maintain and it costs them, but those people don't realise We are gifted with wonderful opensource community like (pixelexperience os maintainers). These corporation can design it to make it easy for opensource community to maintain it after EOL.

Since you are here in HN, there is high probability you are one of the geeks in industry. I hope you fight for "planet/people over profits".

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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by bryanrasmussen on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:39AM (#37519324)
>I am really heartbroken by your response, I always feel the world/society should fight planned obsolescence.

alternative explanation - they feel there is overuse of computing devices and that one could really go back to pencil and paper for lots of tasks.

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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by walteweiss on Friday September 15, 2023 @02:45AM (#37519375)
‘Uh-huh’ changes that context and makes it sarcastic.
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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by avgcorrection on Friday September 15, 2023 @03:37AM (#37519779)
Uh-huh. That's about twenty extra steps compared to going back to books, pencil and paper.
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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by scbzzzzz on Friday September 15, 2023 @05:23AM (#37520442)
yeah, that might be true, with all that's going on the news,my first thought was that the commenter is linking planned obsolescence with technology progress (sarcastically). Thanks for the perspective. There are days when I felt the urge to forgo the computing and go back 5 years when world is hopeful and not overwhelmed with computing
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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by oldnetguy on Friday September 15, 2023 @05:42AM (#37520569)
I have many of my old notebooks that I wrote in as a child. The amount of paper and ink I used was a lot. Multiply that times all the children and you see how much paper is used vs. typing on a computer.

Sometimes the technology route is better, now what we need to do is make it more sustainable.

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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by _Algernon_ on Friday September 15, 2023 @05:49AM (#37520624)
There's a lot more resources that go into 1g of computing devices than 1g of paper and writing utensils. Several orders of magnitude more.
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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by avgcorrection on Friday September 15, 2023 @11:28AM (#37524523)
Better to mine some cobalt than to cut down some trees eh. (This time I'm being sarcastic.)
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Re:Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates by avgcorrection on Friday September 15, 2023 @10:59AM (#37524086)
You have to either be very young or be very LCD-brained if you think advocating for simple, effective, time-tested teaching methods must necessarily be sarcastic.
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