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  "textContent": "> While I understand to a point, having lived through the 1990s and 2000s when people were expected to buy a new machine every 2-5 years, which was insane... I also think that if you get past the point of expecting about 10 years of support for older stuff, it goes from being \"opposition to planned obsolescence\" to being something like \"burying your head in the sand and being stubborn while making developer's lives harder\" Like, I definitely get not wanting to throw away serviceable older hardware, within reason... but I am somewhat less understanding of people insisting on making developer's lives harder when their older hardware could run a supported OS, or using 20-year old hardware as a daily driver outside of living in a third-world country.\n>\n> The instruction set is never likely to go beyond AVX2, mostly because AVX512 support is spotty on consumer hardware anyway and thus the proposed standard for x86-64-v4 is essentially a bust since modern CPUs targeted to consumers don't support it fully.\n>\n> It's like, yes, I get what was going on in the 1990s and 2000s probably wasn't sustainable, but I think now people are going to the other extreme of wanting to treat a computer like an appliance that should last a lifetime, and really don't want to replace it until it breaks, with a high chance of it being replaced with another old model because they don't like the newer models. One thing that makes me a little annoyed about this is I feel like if it continues, companies might stop making new computers and then we'll all be forced to do everything on the smartphone or keep old stuff on life support forever.\n\n**Off-topic:**\nGuess I'm in that territory or getting there with my 17 years old PC. And I recently replaced power supply rather than buying an entire new computer (though the old PSU may just need a capacitor replacement...).\n\nIt's just, the old one does everything I need it for and getting new one is too much bother for not much benefit.\n\nLast but not least, I'm a miserable individual and new computer won't make me happy. When I was a teenager I fantasized about buying an Alienware, but no money. Now the money is not the problem, but I don't give a shit.\n\nThird-world countries? Well the ancient barbaric rituals persist well into 2026 in so-called \"first-world\" countries... I consider the place I'm from third-world shithole so you could say me using an old computer is consistent with that.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Pale Moon's PR Problem",
  "updatedAt": "2026-05-31T12:20:05.000Z"
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