gayhitler420
Dong missiles
Do you still have the video link???
He’s sleeping with the fishes now
you already have that firewall. it’s your experiences and human connections, your understanding of media, your personal history and learning and the feelings you experience.
you don’t need a firewall to keep you from being manipulated, you need to learn to fucking read and think and feel. to learn and question, to develop trusted friends and family you can talk to.
if it feels like your emotional backdoors are being exploited then maybe youre thinking or behaving like a monster and your mind is revolting against itself.
I am too. I used to think that people upgraded computers because I and the people around me did, but seeing what a local ewaste scrapper deals with I ended up changing my mind. All those computers are in their bone-stock configuration.
Once he got a pallet of gaming pcs, prebuilt originally, but I thought at least these will have upgraded ram and cpus and for sure gpus and ssds. Nope. They were as they shipped. Two of four slots empty, still booted perfectly up on spinning media.
When companies say they’re not seeing demand for upgradability I believe them.
That’s great.
I’m telling you as someone who worked for a long time doing business and individual support that people don’t upgrade their computers. Even when it was the “best” choice, you tell someone $30 worth of memory and a $50 ssd will make their computer better than new and they’ll choose to buy a new one almost every time. Businesses have a refresh cycle and don’t upgrade outside of that.
The overwhelming majority of computers, and I’m talking phones, laptops, towers, mini pcs, all of it. The vast overwhelming majority of computers will never be upgraded or have any hardware replaced at all even as a repair.
Including phones in this ought to tilt it towards getting things fixed too because of all the broken screens but most people just get a new phone when they break the screen or lose battery life.
E: if you want to look for yourself, and I understand why you might, find someone near you doing electronic salvage and peek at the machines they’re stripping out. Not a one will ever have anything other than what it shipped with.
From an engineering standpoint they made a set of design choices with the m series chips that sacrifice easy upgradability for the benefits of ram soldered in very close to the chips that are gonna use it that smartphones, tablets and most laptops have. Before someone jumps in and says it’s possible to have replaceable ram in that same space, yes, that’s true but you’d have to pull the heatsink off every time you wanna swap it out, and for what? Almost all users never upgrade their ram and choose instead to get anew computer (this has been true forever, btw).
From a sustainability perspective, if no one is upgrading anyway and getting the ram socket off the board saves a few grams of plastic, that’s a net win. Plastic recycling is fake and made up, metal and electronic recycling are real for better or worse. Is it better to keep the 5% of devices that will ever be repaired or upgraded running or reduce the amount of plastic in the waste stream on the other 95%? Idk. But I know that apple has a recycling program for devices.
Lot of arguing about how much memory is too much, whether it should be upgradable and how much it should cost in here.
No ones said a damn thing about how the average computer buyer is making the same amount or less than they were ten years ago when adjusted for inflation.