[GTALUG] Ontario Bill 72: "Right to Repair"

[Don Tai]

A different view from the fashion industry. Instead of making more throw
away products, make less but better quality products. It seems very old
school, and much less wasteful. Not quite the right to repair, but along
the same philosophical line.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90311509/we-have-to-fix-fashion-if-we-want-to-survive-the-next-century

On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 at 14:55, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
wrote:

> | From: James Knott via talk <talk at gtalug.org>
>
> | My notebook is a Lenovo ThinkPad E520, which I bought 7.5 years ago.
> | It's still going strong, though I put in a larger hard drive.  I've had
> | a thing for ThinkPads ever since I worked at IBM in the late 90s and
> | most of my work was on them.
>
> I like ThinkPads.  But the E520 is heavy and burns a lot of power.
>
> My (adult) kids have T520s.  But both kids rarely use them
> because ultrabooks are so much more portable.
>
> | I bought my desktop computer about 13 years ago, but have upgraded the
> | mom board a couple of times and also disk drives.
>
> That's a long time.
>
> If you replaced the motherboard, I would guess you replaced the
> processor and RAM at the same time.
>
> What's left?
>
> - the case (worth ~$50)
>
> - perhaps the power supply (but then you won't be able to support
>   modern video cards)
>
> - video card (if any): current CPU's built-in GPUs would probably beat
>   it.
>
> - the floppy disk (I don't remember the last time I used one).
>   I have an external drive if I need to use a floppy.
>
> - the CD or DVD writer.  I don't use them that often.  I used one last
>   month to create a bootable Fedora live install DVD because of a
>   firmware limitation with a netbook.  Booting the netbook required an
>   external DVD reader.
>
> I'd just get a new box and leave the old one functioning as long as I
> had a use and space.  (Is it any wonder that I need KVMs?)---
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