14 Apr
2013
14 Apr
'13
6:02 p.m.
On 04/14/2013 08:40 PM, MG wrote:
On 22-feb-2013 20:09, Murray McCullough wrote:
I refuse to follow planned obsolescence. I will only dispose of the
system if it's absolutely worthless (like a pentium 4...I want that
garbage GONE) and I've scrapped it for any useful parts. Unfortunately
a lot of modern x86 systems are garbage...
However, almost all hardware before the pentium 3 I will do all my
effort to preserve and keep alive. For example: I have this pentium 2 I
refuse to part with (it's my nameserver) and my router is a Netra t1 105.
However...with phones? I replaced that pretty quickly (largely because
I don't really like Android and Google are evil)
If the hardware was made past a certain year...I don't find it worth
saving because it won't last. Like modern VCR/DVD combos? Those are
utter trash, they fail after a year and they're not worth fixing because
it's like they're almost made out of paper or something. I hate planned
obsolescence with a burning passion...I don't throw things away because
I don't have a use for it (unless it was $10 or less and was as
disposable as toilet paper), I usually save it for later or give it to a
good home. (The phone is a perfect example. I replaced the phone, but I
kept the old one. It's useful as a wifi remote control for things.)
Okay, I probably won't repair a microwave due to the dangers, but that's
why I like SHARP Microwaves...those pretty much don't fail. ;)
Wow. I'm probably younger than you and *I* just went on a rant!
Excuse the rant...
Should we be surprised at how and why
classic-computing, this site in
particular, is so popular amongst the hobbyist/experimenter community
today? There is a modicum of control that?s lacking in today?s
computing, or computing-like, technology. Granted it?s ?easier? to
use/employ, nearly by all; everything, or almost, done without
consumer input but turning the infernal beast on. Or, maybe not with
the ?intelligence agents? been employed today! And even our computers
I dare say going this route. Automatic updates, etc., etc.,
happen?Making a computer or otherwise do what you want it to do,
rather than say an Apple or something akin, is fast becoming a thing
of the past. Freedom. Let?s hope it?s not pass? either!
If you ask me, computing itself is something of the past. What is
actually 'computed' nowadays on the tons of worthless 'smart phones'
and other nonsensical wastes of cycles and electricity?
I'm not even near as old as some of those posting here and I'm
already bittered (or was, certainly, more so a while back).
I've come to accept that it's a consumerist culture where
everything is disposable. (In this supposedly 'more and more'
"green" world.) So, I've started not to care much and not
attach to much to a computer.
I do have these SGIs here to remind me of better times, with
one still very capable (SGI Tezro) to actually do some work
on.
I don't care if the system is capable, I just want it to LAST. I find
most systems pre-P3 WILL.
- MG
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