My laptop for home use is almost 15 years old. My desktop is almost 11 years old. My work laptop is 8 years old. Here they are talking about more modern and powerful equipment, defining them as obsolete. I don’t know, maybe we should start questioning if these consumption dynamics are a bit harmful.
You’re right, but the vendors don’t support products very long, vulnerabilities stack up, safe batteries become expensive and hard to source, applications become incredibly bloated as they’re tailored for newer hardware, the power costs stop making sense…
…and we can avoid all of that by getting a newer more feature rich machine every few years.
Companies need to make ‘repair and upgrade’ the cheaper alternative before any sort of critical mass is going to get onboard with series reduce, reuse, recycle.
So again, you’re right, but it’s a complex issue, especially in computing.
My laptop for home use is almost 15 years old. My desktop is almost 11 years old. My work laptop is 8 years old. Here they are talking about more modern and powerful equipment, defining them as obsolete. I don’t know, maybe we should start questioning if these consumption dynamics are a bit harmful.
I can even run the latest Stable diffusion models on my 8 year old GPU.
based and sustainability-pilled
So what’s loading up a YouTube video like? 100% ram and CPU usage constantly?
youtube is older than most of his/her machines ;)
The website maybe, but not the browsers and their video players… >;)
browsers are not the only way to watch YouTube … mpv is older than most of his machines ;)
but yeah - i get the point
nevertheless there is a lot you can do with aged hardware - there are lots of desktops/windowmanagers which will happily run as well
As someone who first started to load programs into his computer with a cassette tape recorder, I’m aware of that.
Between that and apps on a phone, nothing else comes even close in the percentage of usage for viewing a video on the internet.
Thanks. ]:D
so you’re older than his machines as well … see - they are not that(!) old ;) :D :D
i love my thinkpad x1 3rd gen and wouldn’t swap it for anything until it crumbles to dust :D
It’s not so much about the age, but about the mileage.
You’re right, but the vendors don’t support products very long, vulnerabilities stack up, safe batteries become expensive and hard to source, applications become incredibly bloated as they’re tailored for newer hardware, the power costs stop making sense…
…and we can avoid all of that by getting a newer more feature rich machine every few years.
Companies need to make ‘repair and upgrade’ the cheaper alternative before any sort of critical mass is going to get onboard with series reduce, reuse, recycle.
So again, you’re right, but it’s a complex issue, especially in computing.