UngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️@beehaw.org to Technology@beehaw.org · 1 year agoBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comexternal-linkmessage-square305fedilinkarrow-up1791arrow-down10file-text
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There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
minus-squaresociablefish@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoso they think that reformatting is wiping the drive clean instead of recreating ntfs/exfat metadata files
so they think that reformatting is wiping the drive clean instead of recreating ntfs/exfat metadata files