“If you’re buying first hand products, you’re promoting e-waste creation.”
ebin.city
ebin.city
Some paragraphs are pure garbage from a selfish and monocentric guy:
> The need for a newer machine is only for people who do professional hardware demanding video editing, compile massive operating systems or enormous programs constantly, use bloated programs or other horrible designed software.
Wow, I really need his game engine with 3D and raytracing on a my core-duo laptop!
> I know what are you going to say. “My laptop runs slow”. That’s a Windows problem.
My 2010 laptop is running slow with Linux inside...
> The laptop that I use everyday cost me that quantity in the second hand market. If you’re buying first hand products, you’re promoting e-waste creation.
Ok, I am a bad guy then.
I'm not sure who the straw man is that they refer to for being able to have an acceptable user experience on a 13+ year only computer because they don't cite anything but their own assumption. Allow me to make one. Joe straw man doesn't buy an new computer just because, they do it because they no longer are having an acceptable user experience. If they buy a new machine and keep it 5-6 years or buy a used one and keep 2-3 years, is there a net change in e-waste? (That is realistic time frames) To say that people could have a acceptable experience on a 13+ year old computer is just silly. The software you want won't run because the operating system it requires won't run. I guess if you're turning back the clock on all the software then ok, but many of today's web pages will struggle to load and run. Tell me how it works out when you install Windows Vista or XP on your 13+ year old computer, and then run Gmail or join a zoom meeting to talk with your kids. If the all hardware progress stopped could it be made to work? Sure, but the entire ecosystem of hardware, software and experience moves together.
I think the core idea of better dealing with e-waste is a valid one, but I don't see anything proposed as actual, realistic solution. It's just moving the pegs but having the same outcome. Better recycling, free recycling, and better education around e-waste recycling should be promoted.
When a boomer says, "it was better in my day, we should go back to blah blah blah". The response is ok boomer. When there's some environmental let's stop all progress proposal and crank the timeline back a decade or more for the ignorant plebians it's done with a straight face.