Cause you’re thinking like an unhappy poor person. Not like someone who has the entire world at their disposal to consume and exploit.

Linux just ended support for the i486 chipset. Is that out of line by your standards as well? Are vendors obligated to support products for an eternity? What would be a reasonable amount of time to continue providing support if 14 years isn’t long enough? I really think the existence of homebrew solutions negates any major concerns here. Even if that didn’t exist, there’s nothing particularly unique about this situation. In fact the support window was like twice as long as the closest competitors. I think the language here is a little over dramatic to be honest.

Ticking time bomb seems a little dramatic for a device of this age. Anyone who actually cares enough to resurrect this hardware can use homebrew solutions. No vendor on the planet supports a product longer than this. Maybe you could argue the entire industry needs to change, but absolutely nothing about this situation is uniquely diabolical.

The headline is misleading. You can continue using the device with the books you have downloaded onto it for as long as you’d like. There also seems to be some homebrew alternatives as well.

14 years of software support is basically unheard of. These devices had a good run. This story seems completely blown out of proportion.

Yeah I meant after the support window ends.

I was speaking in general. Everyone’s risk tolerance is different. Offline is better if you can.

We agree completely. Offline is better.

Was glad to see the new Macbook Neo was a small correction of this trend for Apple at least. No idea if it’ll stick, seems unlikely. But one of the largest consumer electronics companies in the world becoming more repairable is great for everyone whether you like their products or not.

You can, but it’s a bad idea. Pretty major security risk.

I plead the Shaggy Defense.

But at what cost?

This is the real distraction from the Epstein files.

Bobby B has to be the most underrated king in the ASOIAF universe. Disastrous personal life, but he understood Westeros better than anyone else. Pragmatic, realistic, and stable. Women and alcohol just got the best of him.

Never gave it much thought until now, but this was 100% how I was taught in the American public school system.

This is such an incredibly brain dead take. As if the US hasn’t been saber rattling for an Iran war for decades.

By the time you got to the third sentence explaining the fediverse they’d put a sack over your head, load you into the van, and you’d never be heard from again.

Be a lot cooler if they did.

It came out during COVID which is a lot of the reason people don’t remember it I think.

I don’t want to dox myself by giving his exact birth year, but let’s just say he’s right on the threshold between boomer and Gen X