My main machine is a Lenovo T61 manufactured in 2006. My backup machine is a T400 from 2009. I have an HP48 manufactured in the mid 1990's still. All work perfectly.
2 years is taking the piss. Seriously. I feel people have been programmed into thinking this is acceptable.
From my perspective (I'm not the GP), I will be using a custom configuration management system that I wrote back in 1999. It's. Like puppet but ssh based, written in sh and standard Unix tooling. It doesn't use a DAG so you have to order dependencies carefully.
That will pull binary packages from ports builds on another machine and install and configure them.
I may actually consider dumping Debian for FreeBSD 10.
I've never been totally happy with Linux after moving off "proper" UNIX machines. I had a FreeBSD 4.4 machine floating around for years which I was rather happy with but drifted off to Linux-land primarily due to convenience when it came to Flash and audio.
So many compelling reasons to switch back to FreeBSD now.
> If your Lumia's battery needed to be replaced after 9 months, it was already under warranty and should have been replaced by the manufacturer.
It was. Nokia service sent me a new one out for nothing after a 5 minute phone call.
> You know what's also a safety nightmare? Batteries. Which is why stopping third-parties from replacing certified batteries with random bought-off-eBay batteries is definitely a good idea.
The problem is more power isolation. If you get a short when you damage the device etc (compression/impact/waterlogging), your typical LiPoly cell is going to catch fire or at least knock out extremes of heat. This is very hazardous. Removal batteries at least have a chance of power isolation.
My specific example here is my 2010 MBP which the battery was not glued (but inaccessible). This got waterlogged after a drink was spilled on the table. Turning it upside down revealed that capillary action around the base plate had sucked up the water. It rained on the logic board. About 30 seconds later, it caught fire. My only resort was to throw it in the garden and watch my £1249 investment burn up.
> Apple does have a recycling programme where you can bring your old electronics for free
Yes they do but perhaps if you could replace the battery out of warranty, you wouldn't need to recycle it :)
They're not a useful innovation - they are an abhorrent consumerist "disposalism" decision to pump sales, a safety nightmare (isolate it? nope), purely a cost cutting exercise for the manufacturer and make it even harder to recycle the nasty chemicals.
Don't give me the shit about it allowing smaller devices to be made either. You can make smaller devices with removable batteries fine.
What the hell? The M7 is a marketing label for some COTS silicon they licensed from some IP company somewhere (probably ARM/Broadcom or one of their associates).
It doesn't make unicorns shit rainbows or defy the laws of physics.
BBC did this 15 years ago on tiny computers compared to now. They uploaded static HTML onto Sun boxes and served them.
If you did a submission somewhere, it'd do offline processing and upload new static pages.
Most of this was C and perl.
No Scala, no Java, no Ruby.
iOS does HTML too you know.
I agree with the OP - most of this new technology doesn't really solve any problems. All it does is create an ecosystem you can feel superior being a member of.
Glue: technology shared with a $1000 and a $5 device but none in between.
I've just replaced the battery on my Lumia 820 after 9 months. They don't last forever. Glue is inexcusable. If they had a half decent mechanical design, foam pads would secure it in place when the device was assembled and allow replacement.
I'd probably buy new Apple products if they weren't held together with glue. I'm not investing lots of money in something intended to be disposable. My last MBP (2010) was at least servicable. Now replaced with Lenovo kit as it's possible to strip it down and replace anything.
You can actually do most of that with vanilla PowerShell and Excel believe it or not but it's much fuglier and you spend most of your way working around edge cases.
The only thing that scares me about this though is that JSON is a terrible format for storing numbers in. There is no way of specifying a decimal type for example so aggregations and calculations have no implied precision past floating point values.
2 years is taking the piss. Seriously. I feel people have been programmed into thinking this is acceptable.