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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!buyitforlife@slrpnk.net - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
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!fixit@disflux.org
!righttorepair@midwest.social - exercise your right to fix stuff
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!sustainabletech@lemmy.sdf.org - sustainable technology
!permacomputing@lemmy.sdf.org - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
!permacomputing@slrpnk.net - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
!zerowaste@slrpnk.net - To discuss waste avoidance

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Video gamer calls out electronics company after realizing major design flaw: 'Own up to your mistake' (www.thecooldown.com)

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[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 25 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

To save you a click: The company in question is Lenovo; they sold a prebuilt desktop with a motherboard that ended up not supporting nVidia driver updates for the GPU. Now anyone with this desktop is stuck on an old driver version and their computer crashes a lot, and can't play games as they become incompatible with the installed driver version.

Editorial by me: The only real solution would be to upgrade the motherboard which is at least a few hundred bucks; they may need to buy a new CPU or RAM as well, depending on what else Lenovo cheaped out on, and labour which the owner may not have the skill for, meaning even more money.