On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 08:45:11AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
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> > On Dec 31, 2019, at 8:37 AM, Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote:
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> > Silicon Valley is typically out of touch with reality.
> >
[...]
> If I have an old tablet that my kids use to do wikipedia and are now
> locked out, that’s forcing an expense on the end-user of that tech
> and creates more e-waste etc than necessary. I’m not a fan of that
> either, but the painting a broad brush is not helpful to the
> conversation.
I have read this example as illustration of thesis saying "smartphones
and {t|ph)ablets are dead-end architecture". If I had a twenty years
old laptop (oh wait, I have one) and could install a decent OS on it,
and upgrade it a bit or in whole, then I guess the problem with TLS
would have been solved for me. If I had a three years old
smartphone... ok, I have one, and while it is still usable, I
understand that at one point I am not going to receive any new
software for it, nor be able to compile it on my own.
In a future I might not make old errors again and just buy the
cheapest and lousiest smartphone, expecting it would last a year and a
day, not giving any more thought about it.
Dumbphones, on the other hand, seem to be free of this kind of
problems. I am a dumbphone user and it works great.
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Tomasz Rola
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