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There should be a federal law of a tax for non-user-serviceable batteries and a requirement to support devices with security updates for 20 years.

• ejj28 5y ago
  20 years is very extreme. It's not realistic for anyone to support 20 year old hardware.
  • gkbrk 5y ago
    For most devices, supporting a device indefinitely is just a matter of letting the user flash their own firmware or replace the existing one using an SD card. Using your devices for a long time is not possible not due to the difficulty of the community maintaining the software, but because the original company put user-hostile signature checks on the firmware.
  • spoonjim 5y ago
    It’s not realistic because tech companies have conditioned us into that expectation. My dad has a 40 year old high end sound system which works flawlessly. Why can’t Google maintain some servers and push some fixes for 20 years?