UngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️ to Technology@beehaw.org • 11 months agoBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comexternal-linkmessage-square276fedilinkarrow-up1771file-text
arrow-up1771external-linkBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comUngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️ to Technology@beehaw.org • 11 months agomessage-square276fedilinkfile-text
There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
minus-square@michaelfone@waveform.sociallinkfedilink1•11 months agoIt should, yes. But that’s not going to stop them from trying. Enough noise from a “concerned parent” will make something happen more often than not.
It should, yes. But that’s not going to stop them from trying. Enough noise from a “concerned parent” will make something happen more often than not.
This is why we can’t have nice things