101010.pl is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
101010.pl czyli najstarszy polski serwer Mastodon. Posiadamy wpisy do 2048 znaków.

Server stats:

485
active users

#obsolescence

0 posts0 participants0 posts today

The cloud is everywhere. Many of us trust cloud solutions for data storage, computing resources or for centralised management of smart home devices. But most of the people using cloud resources are not aware, that they are in dependency of their service provider. And what happens, if a provider cuts off his cloud service? Like Bosch did with their Spexor devices, their quite expensive "mobile alarm system" Thousands of Spexor devices will become expensive electronic trash on July 1st.

Maybe it's better to think twice, before relying on cloud based solutions. We don't know when, but it is sure that - at a certain point - the provider will always cut off services. Sooner or later. It's up to us to decide...

heise.de/en/news/Bosch-deals-t

heise online · Bosch deals the death blow to spexor devicesBy Dirk Knop

[Nouveau podcast] LHDG25. L'obsolescence de Murphy

Nouvelle chronique où je vous propose une théorie assez simple mais qui se vérifie pas mal en pratique : plus un objet est complexe, plus il a de chances de tomber en panne. C'est pour ça que j'ai tendance à aimer les objets simples.

▶️ Écouter cette chronique : grisebouille.net/lhdg25-lobsol
📗 Le livre best of : editions.ptilouk.net/gb10ans
❤️ Soutien : ptilouk.net/#soutien

Grise Bouille · LHDG25. L'obsolescence de Murphy
More from gee Ⓐ⚑

That's nice! 😺

How old is your computer? 🎂

Buying fewer electronic devices is a great way to reduce our carbon footprint (and save money!). 💰 👣

Unfortunately, "planned obsolescence" is a reality, and it means that electronics are designed to break down quickly or software updates force you to buy more "modern" equipment.

So, if you want to track or celebrate the anniversary of your devices, check out this idea!

We don't know who is behind this small online shop, but they have created some nice stickers that you can use in your devices to celebrate every year they survive to the digital obsolescence. 😀

Link here: vignette-tech.fr/produit/vigne

And we would like to know:

How old is your oldest computer or mobile phone?

And have you ever bought an electronic that didn't last two years and has already broken or become obsolete?

As a #Linux user myself I am not used to the limited hardware support of #MicrosoftWindows 😟

Yesterday I failed to help a coworker installing an older #Canon #scanner. Canon’s drivers were only for Windows XP and last updated long before the end of XP. Today’s Windows can’t do anything with the scanner. Device Manager can barely tell there’s an unknown Canon device present. 🤷‍♂️

With #Debian you just plug in the scanner and you’re done.

Simplicity.

I enjoy writing on my Lenovo ThinkPad T460s. The ThinkPad series, even in its IBM days, had some of the best keyboards I’ve ever used and this particular laptop continues the tradition.

I bought this laptop a couple of years ago on a whim; it was on sale at a refurbished computer place online, had decent specs, and I thought it would make a great second computer to have in the lab. It runs Debian Linux and has done so for quite a while. To avoid distractions in my home office during work hours, this laptop sits on the other desk in my office, away from my way work area, and is the only computer allowed in the room (other than my work laptop). I find if I have my Mac or iPad at hand I tend to be a little distracted, especially when the news is blowing up.

The news has been blowing up a lot the last month or so.

I decided to look up the age of this computer and was delighted to learn it’s eight years old. When the computer arrived a few years ago it was running Windows 10, which of course is no longer supported by Microsoft. The processor is decent; it has an i7-6600u CPU with 16GB RAM. For web browsing, writing with Obsidian, and doing stuff on the terminal, it does its job very well and I don’t see this machine being retired anytime soon.

As society moves further and further away from sustainability by following the lead of corporations and their planned obsolescence (I’m looking at you Microsoft and Apple), it’s good to breathe new life into these older computers. There’s no reason to fill landfills prematurely.

I know a few folks with Chromebooks lying around that have probably been dumped in the support department by Google. Again, here’s another opportunity to put a lightweight Linux on these machines and keep these older computers out of the landfill.

When Apple stops supporting the M2 chip in my MacBook Air, I’ll probably either convert it to a Linux box or donate it to someone. Aside from my multimedia production work, I don’t have a reliance on the Apple ecosystem anymore, and that’s a great feeling.

I know I’ve been rather “anti-Apple” for the past month, which has been in concert with the explosion of ridiculous news. I’ve come to the realisation that Apple is doing what they have to do in this new economical mindset. It’s the economical mindset that the most unfortunate, but it’s also unfortunate that the FAANG1 bros are perpetuating a legitimacy of this mindset by playing along.

I just want to keep things out of our landfills for as long as possible.

1 Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google

The problems in the European Digital Identity (EUDI)

@jaromil's independent feedback on the dangers of the current #EUDI implementation. What it should be, and the issues it has regarding Fairness, Privacy, Security, Scalability, Obsolescence and Methodology.

#Fairness #Privacy #Security #Scalability #Obsolescence #Methodology.

news.dyne.org/the-problems-of-

News From Dyne · The Seven Sins of European Digital Identity (EUDI)
More from Dyne.org foundation

Archiving Data On Plain Paper Using 2D Images

Optar or OPTical ARchiver is a project capable of squeezing a whopping 200 kB of data onto a single A4 sheet of paper, with writing and reading achieved with a standard laser printer and a scanner. It’s a bit harder than you might think to get that ...continues

See gadgeteer.co.za/archiving-data

##obsolescence #archiving #technology

GadgeteerZA · Archiving Data On Plain Paper Using 2D ImagesOptar or OPTical ARchiver is a project capable of squeezing a whopping 200 kB of data onto a single A4 sheet of paper, with writing and reading achieved with