expanding brain meme, tech
small brain: it's outdated when it can't run the latest games anymore
bigger brain: it's outdated when it can't run a modern browser anymore
glowing brain: it's outdated when it doesn't work anymore
galaxy brain: it's outdated when it can't be easily fixed anymore
cosmic brain: it's outdated when it physically cannot be made to run again
tech nonsense, reddit
on the subject of this morning's Dumb Shit Reddit Assholes Tell People, by far my least favorite excuse for smartphones always wearing out in two years is "well it'll just be outdated in two years anyway".
hey, fuck you. who do you think decides when something's outdated on that short a timescale, huh? it sure as hell isn't us.
tech nonsense, reddit
Computers could last forever if we wanted them to. There's hardly any technological hurdles to jump there. There's only capitalism, insisting that we have More Better devices all the time, and carefully engineering an in-or-out software ecosystem that constantly gets less efficient just to make sure that old devices stop being useful.
I hate it so much.
tech nonsense, reddit
@ellied I hear you, but I think that's oversimplification. How many people are software engineers? We help employ them. And they aren't going to sit around and do bug fixes on old systems...that's boring as hell. Also, we are still in computing infancy. Imagine what progress we'd stall if we just decided to keep our current computers.
I know it's annoying, and expensive, to upgrade, but I sure wouldn't want AOL running on my old Dell computer from 2000 these days...
