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Comment Re: Scrap heap (Score 1) 156

Sure, but isn't the point that if you plan to keep them longer than 2025 then the costs for paid support could be more than a new PC. Although the alternative for Microsoft would be to support an obsolete OS they are not making money from forever, so there's gotta be an end of life phase someday. As long as the hardware is still good, you could install some other OS...

Comment Re: Typical.... (Score 2) 230

It probably will get scary. We're living in a increasingly connected world where neglects, laziness and greed of the past are increasingly piling up. It's doesn't look like politicians seem to understand that natural events (including people psychology) mostly do not happen on a linear scale and tipping points into cascades are rather the norm than the exception.

Comment "Which may come as news to HP's long-suffering use (Score 1) 158

Nah, no surprise here - when you're already manufacturing the most hated printers, there's only one direction left to go. Now, if they abandoned their bloatware, made ink reasonably cheap and opened up their printers to third party ink, they'd maybe make it to "tolerated". (Although, I do have a soft spot in my heart for the Laserjet II I once found waiting for the garbage man. Worked like a charm for many many years and didn't even need a driver)

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