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Was that laptop a low end one with repackaged older hardware that wasn’t functional out of box and had no drivers or support? What can that laptop, openmoku or a raspberry pi do that someone would care about?

How is selling old nonfunctional hardware not planned obsolescence?




> Was that laptop a low end one with repackaged older hardware that wasn’t functional out of box and had no drivers or support?

At the time it was a high-end laptop with perfectly functioning Windows out of the box. Debian still allows to browse the Internet (not bloated websites), use ssh and Libreoffice. The camera does not work anymore, because the Linux driver does not exist and the Windows driver was proprietary with undisclosed documentation. This is the same planned obsolescence I am talking about.

> What can that laptop, openmoku or a raspberry pi do that someone would care about?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20264911

> How is selling old nonfunctional hardware not planned obsolescence?

Who is selling nonfunctional hardware?




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