the framing on it lmao
“corporation device hoarding”
you mean businesses keeping devices that they KNOW work instead of changing to devices with bullshit new issues created so more of your data can be harvested and you can be advertised to more?
Comment on Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it’s costing the economy
MartianSands@sh.itjust.works 5 days ago
Jesus Christ, when did choosing not to throw away a perfectly good device become “device hoarding”?
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca 5 days ago
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 4 days ago
I’ve worked at large (5k+ workers) companies that were running Windows XP well into the late 2010’s, with matching hardware. That was too extreme (goddamn ie6).
But this article makes me sick. If the economy needs people to throw away perfectly usable goods and buy new ones, the problem isn’t the people, it’s the fucking economy. It’s time to take a step back and rethink the system, because it’s gonna implode.
Thisiswritteningerman@midwest.social 4 days ago
I’ve got a machine running XP and one running 7. Both really only exist due to the software/equipment they’re supporting being abandoned. IT keeps them disconnected from everything else and generally doesn’t like that they exist. Disconnected Lab View licenses are fun though.
Zetta@mander.xyz 5 days ago
Gotta love American capitalist propaganda.