On Tue, Dec 31, 2019 at 08:45:11AM -0500, Jared Mauch wrote:
On Dec 31, 2019, at 8:37 AM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
Silicon Valley is typically out of touch with reality.
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If I have an old tablet that my kids use to do wikipedia and are now locked out, that’s forcing an expense on the end-user of that tech and creates more e-waste etc than necessary. I’m not a fan of that either, but the painting a broad brush is not helpful to the conversation.
I have read this example as illustration of thesis saying "smartphones and {t|ph)ablets are dead-end architecture". If I had a twenty years old laptop (oh wait, I have one) and could install a decent OS on it, and upgrade it a bit or in whole, then I guess the problem with TLS would have been solved for me. If I had a three years old smartphone... ok, I have one, and while it is still usable, I understand that at one point I am not going to receive any new software for it, nor be able to compile it on my own. In a future I might not make old errors again and just buy the cheapest and lousiest smartphone, expecting it would last a year and a day, not giving any more thought about it. Dumbphones, on the other hand, seem to be free of this kind of problems. I am a dumbphone user and it works great. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_rola@bigfoot.com **