The device you're currently using is worse than the equivalent model was 10 years ago?

Over 30 years ago my family spent an _extra_ $1000 (in ~1993 dollars) on a computer system to upgrade from a 15" CRT to a 17" and increase the RAM from 16MB to 32MB.

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thefz 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

> The device you're currently using is worse than the equivalent model was 10 years ago?

It is increasingly less and less mine at every iteration. I owned every bit of my dad's 386.

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Ekaros 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Well it lasted 10 years less for pretty much same thing... Talking about my 27" 1440p monitor. Dell is still working. The 4 year old Asus have most likely some type of power issue and doesn't even want to start.

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NackerHughes 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The device I'm currently using has no headphone jack, no removable battery, no removable memory, no removable storage, a single solitary USB-A port and a locked-down BIOS that only lets you install Windows by default. All in the name of profit.

Yes, the device I'm currently using is worse than the equivalent model was 10 years ago. Thanks, capitalism.

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Rohansi 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Why did you buy it then? There are systems on the market still that have none of these issues.

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watwut 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Which ones? I would happily use the phone I had 10 years ago. It was smaller, fit into a pocket better and literally the only meaningful thing that got better in between is camera.

And if I go further into history, I loved my phone with physical querty keyboard (nokia). There is no such thing on the market now, but I would love physical keyboard again.

	▲	xethos an hour ago \| parent [-]
		> I would happily use the phone I had 10 years ago > There is no such thing on the market now Good news, the ~12-year-old BlackBerry Q20 is back, and shipping, [0] with an updated motherboard. It's a real product, not vaporware; I have two. It has a headphone jack, a small form-factor, removable micro-SD card slot, and a battery that takes little more than a guitar pick and #0 Philips screwdriver to replace. Parts are cheap as hell as well, with a new screen costing under $25USD, and replacement keyboards under $30. There's multiple clean sheet designs [1,2] of similar devices as well. Though I expect them to be treated like fun little runabout cars: made for (typically young) people that can't justify the cost, leaving nobody to buy them, who then bemoan their discontinuation... due to poor sales [0] https://zinwa.com/product/q25-full-device/ [1] https://zinwa.com/product/p26-full-device-pre-order/ [2] https://www.clicksphone.com/ca/communicator

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t-writescode 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Now compare clothing. Or Pyrex. Or the chocolate in candy bars.

	▲	tastyfreeze 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Stop buying brands that coast on past clout.