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20 years is very extreme. It's not realistic for anyone to support 20 year old hardware.
by ejj28 5y ago
20 years is very extreme. It's not realistic for anyone to support 20 year old hardware.
- gkbrk 5y agoFor 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 agoIt’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?