this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
834 points (98.7% liked)
Technology
85461 readers
4618 users here now
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Our Rules
- Follow the lemmy.world rules.
- Only tech related news or articles.
- Be excellent to each other!
- Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
- Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
- Politics threads may be removed.
- No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
- Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
- Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
- Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.
Approved Bots
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Buy used, compensate for the loss in power with algorithmic ingenuity, yadda yadda.
Also, if you can do the thing the app does on paper, you should just do it on paper and can save the computer for more difficult tasks like the old-timers that paved the way for our modern-day laziness.
Use the public library, also.
I dunno, man. Seems like all the convenient options at this point require you to capitulate to some asshole trying to jack up prices and deny payouts, and the only option now is to take high roads that are unpaved.
This right here. If people trusted each other more and maintained their stuff more, companies would starve.
But no. Instead people treat their belongings like disposable trash, and trillionaires take advantage of it.
It's our fucking fault. All our fault.
My problem with buying used is that some things barely survive the warranty period, so if I can get those two years of warranty, I will. I usually aim towards buying the latest thing and using it for at least 3-4 years for the things that go old the fastest (CPUs, mobos, RAM, GPUs). Other things might last longer - i.e. I just retired a case and a PSU that are 10+ years old (bought new).
I somewhat agree with your sentiment, but indeed it seems like the more we want to vote with our wallets, the further we stray from practicality.