Marxism-Fennekinism to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmygrad.mlEnglish • 1 year agoBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comexternal-linkmessage-square20fedilinkarrow-up171arrow-down10file-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
arrow-up171arrow-down1external-linkBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comMarxism-Fennekinism to Late Stage Capitalism@lemmygrad.mlEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square20fedilinkfile-textcross-posted to: technology@beehaw.org
There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
minus-square@LeFantome@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoIs there somewhere that you can pick-up these “death date” laptops?
minus-squareMarxism-FennekinismOPlinkfedilinkEnglish3•edit-21 year agoeBay soon probably, search “not working or for parts.” Or they’ll do the asinine thing and throw them all away.
Is there somewhere that you can pick-up these “death date” laptops?
eBay soon probably, search “not working or for parts.” Or they’ll do the asinine thing and throw them all away.