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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Apr 2019

      So my (very capable!) IT team at work has kinda forced me to replace my desktop (7 years old, end of lifecycle by policy). I get their reasoning for the policy but it was working just fine as far as I'm concerned! Does your workplace have an end-of-life age for desktops?

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Apr 2019

      I have a shiny new desktop computer now and given what I do, I cannot tell the difference. (Even for stats, old desktop is fine for my size datasets and if I wanted to do big data stuff, there are cluster resources available.) As far as I am concerned=desktop is mostly writing.🤷‍♀️

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Apr 2019

      So just chatted with someone from the IT team and he says that many big vendors have proprietary parts—power supplies, for example, with non-standard pinouts—and then charge an arm-and-a-leg to replace them on older models, effectively forcing an upgrade. 😡

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        1. Jonathan Fowler  🇺🇳‏Verified account @UN_JWFOWLER 29 Apr 2019
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          Ah, our old friend built-in obsolescence 😠

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        1.  🔊 Radio K-TRU  🔊‏ @Kinkster_Truth 29 Apr 2019
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          Not inaccurate.

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        1. David Crockett‏ @dcrockett17 29 Apr 2019
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          Was just about to say something to this effect. For hardware, planned obsolescence is pretty much the whole business model.

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        1. fuhainaA © 🕊️‏ @F_Ayna_Ahmad 29 Apr 2019
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          7 years old? Normally around 4 to 5 years needs upgrade, but that depends on the work.

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        1. Roger Brown‏ @RogerBr18640205 29 Apr 2019
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          true dat!

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        1. next_ghost  💉 💉 💉‏ @next_ghost_cz 29 Apr 2019
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          Still, your IT team could have waited with the full machine replacement until one of those proprietary parts actually breaks.

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        1. Aleema‏ @luushanah 29 Apr 2019
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          For 7 years, we'd replace for the same reason... cheaper to get something entirely new in many cases (and less of a headache for IT).

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        1. Bob Campbell‏ @thebobcampbell 29 Apr 2019
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          Learned this the hard way trying to help a friend replace a failed power supply in a not-very-old Dell. FrankenPCs for me, thanks.

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        1. Fabian Cl‏ @Eldiabolo1921 29 Apr 2019
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          Vers much so. Same story in the datacenter where even more/ bigger ressources are affected...

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        1. Dieter Castel‏ @DieterCastel 29 Apr 2019
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          Planned obsolescence once more. Is there an industry/company that doesn't do this?

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