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red-iron-pineyesterday at 5:45 PM1 replyview on HN

i believe it. hell i'm in F500 companies and virtually all of them had some legacy XP / Server 2000 / ancient Solaris box in there.

old stuff is common, and doubly so for a lot of the world, which ain't rich and ain't rockin new hardware


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FieryMechanicyesterday at 6:28 PM

My PC now is 6 years old and I have no intention of upgrading it soon. My laptop is like 8 years old and it is fine for what I use it for. My monitors are like 10-12 years old (they are early 4k monitors) and they are still good enough. I am primarily using Linux now and the machine will probably last me to 2030 if not longer.

Pretending that this is an outrageous decision when the data and the commonly assumed wisdom was that there were still a lot of people using HDDs.

They've since rectified this particular issue and there seems to be more criticism of the company after fixing an issue.