UngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️ to [email protected] • 10 months agoBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comexternal-linkmessage-square293fedilinkarrow-up1794arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1793arrow-down1external-linkBuilt-in software ‘death dates’ are sending thousands of schools’ Chromebooks to the recycling binwww.mercurynews.comUngodlyAudrey🏳️⚧️ to [email protected] • 10 months agomessage-square293fedilinkfile-text
There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.
minus-square@ramjambamalamlink1•10 months agoSame thing it does for any instution that loans out hardware, e.g. employers: monitoring remote lockdown / wipe remote management of installed software etc.
Same thing it does for any instution that loans out hardware, e.g. employers:
monitoring
remote lockdown / wipe
remote management of installed software
etc.