FarraigePlaisteach@lemmy.worldtoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is End of Life of an OS bad for an average user?
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29 days agoAll talk about websites in the comments, but what about using just an email client and maybe ssh, rsync etc.
All talk about websites in the comments, but what about using just an email client and maybe ssh, rsync etc.
Seeming reasonable in the context of the madness of constant growth is still not reasonable. I get what you mean, but we need to demand better of the ultra powerful if we want to see better in our lifetime.
When updates gradually make those devices rage-inducingly slow, it’s inevitable that people will dispose of them. It really is a stretch to even say that they are “supporting” them.
Please don’t absolve mega corporations of their responsibility here.
5 years is pretty stingy, and more importantly quite deadly for the environment.
I got tired of having to learn new things. The latest was a reverse proxy that I didn’t want to configure and maintain. I decided that life is short and just use samba to serve media as files. One lighttpd server for my favourite movies so I can watch them from anywhere. The rest I moved to free online services or apps that sync across mobile and desktop.