[TUHS] Re: The death of general purpose computers, was - AIX moved into maintainance mode

Planned obsolescence is, in my opinion, one of the most disgusting concepts in the whole of engineering. The idea that anyone would, in good faith (HAH!), purposefully subvert reliability and dependability engineering solely to ensure frequent turnover of their product is mindboggling. At the very least it's my opinion that all these cell manufacturers (and lets face it, IoT manufacturers) designing their devices to be thrown away and replaced every couple of years should be 100% responsible for the environmental implications of shipping nominally temporary/destined for the scrap heap piles of heavy metals, plastics, etc, all over the globe. Instead these companies are shoveling tons and tons of resources into the market knowing they're going to be landfill material only a few years after release. Yeah there are recycling programs, but even then, it just feels like the general public being made to run on a treadmill of buy this, now donate it back for recycling, now buy the same resources again repackaged in a shiny new box. I'm willing to wager, security and protocol issues aside, most consumers would do just fine with computing technology circa the late 90's/early 00's still, but dangit that new iPhone has a couple more megapixels. - Matt G. ------- Original Message ------- On Thursday, January 19th, 2023 at 12:59 PM, Rich Morin <rdm(a)cfcl.com> wrote: