Forced Obsolescence / Obsolescence by Design

Chatter about forced obsolescence, including but not limited to:

• salvaging or repurposing abandoned / unsupported hardware
• name and shame culprits of obsolescence
• right to repair guidance and advocacy in situations involving obsolescence
• obtaining old software to drive old hardware, finding archives, building old binaries from source

related communities (decentralized only)

somewhat related to forced obsolescence:

• !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
• !buyitforlife@discuss.tchncs.de - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
• !fixing@slrpnk.net - fix it, don’t replace it
• !fixit@disflux.org
• !righttorepair@midwest.social - exercise your right to fix stuff
• !right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de - exercise your right to fix stuff
• !righttorepair@lemmy.fmhy.ml
• !sustainabletech@lemmy.sdf.org - sustainable technology
• !permacomputing@lemmy.sdf.org - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
• !permacomputing@slrpnk.net - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
• !zerowaste@slrpnk.net - To discuss waste avoidance