Subj : Re: Community
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Arelor
Date : Tue Oct 11 2022 17:42:28

  Re: Re: Community
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to NuSkooler on Fri Oct 07 2022 08:01 am

 > Getting elderly parents on Chromebooks is a good thing. I bought my mom a
 > nice Toshiba Chromebook with Beats speakers and a 1080p screen. She has
 > access to Google docs, photos, sync her Android phone to it so she can send
 > text messages from the laptop, and she doesn't have to worry about those
 > popups claiming that she has a Windows virus and to call a number to
 > "remove" it.
 > 
 > Print support was a royal pain, I had to swap out her perfectly good printer
 > for a new one that they supported after they deprecated Cloud Print. And, I
 > had to buy her a new one after 5 years when it went EOL.
 > 
 > Good for me, though - flip a hardware switch to allow writing to the BIOS,
 > burn a third-party BIOS to it and I can use it as a Linux ultrabook, albeit
 > slightly lower powered than I'd like.
 > 

Replacing working hardware in order to make it fit your software deployment sounds so,
so wasteful to me.

I run mostly OpenBSD at home, yet I have never discarded working hardwae just because
I could not make it work for my deployment. I either adjusted my deployment so I
didn't have to purchase more electronic junk or found a new use for the hardware I was
about to discard.

In a firm, it makes sense to select the applications you intend to run, then the
platforms you intend to run them on, and then select the hardware required for that.
That is because in a firm, that setup is making you loads of money, so if you have to
replace some infiniban cards or whatever it is less of a problem. You can always
resell them in bulk and recoup part of the costs.

We keep buying stuff and putting working stuff in the trashbin and then we feel good
anyway because we vote for the Green Party or something :-(

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