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Rather ignores the elephant in the room: the hardware itself and its lifespan. -The design lifetime for current consumer devices is a single digit number of ye
by ThrowawayR2 4y ago
Rather ignores the elephant in the room: the hardware itself and its lifespan.
-The design lifetime for current consumer devices is a single digit number of years; if you're lucky you might get twice that. Any battery powered devices will have their batteries fail well before that.
-Some parts, like electrolytic capacitors and the lubricants in HDDs, age whether they're being actively used or not.
-Reparability is pretty close to nil on modern devices even with specialized equipment. Without that equipment and the supplies needed to use it, it is simply nil.
Before maundering about software and proprietary this and SaaS that, the author needs to define what hardware platform they _realistically_ expect to have available after a societal collapse. After about 5-10 years into the collapse, it will probably be a lot less than they think.
- aaroninsf 4y agoAlthough it was written long ago, strong recommend for Dale Pendell's The Great Bay, https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7821813-the-great-bay https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/7821813-the-great-bay It's a look over an exponential timeline of what goes down figuratively and literally after a collapse, with vignettes checking in during, shortly after, years after, decades after, ... etc. up to the thousand year scale; with nice interstitial montage scenes punctuating them describing what's going on around the world. It's set in CA and some of the "college tries" to keep things going are quite recognizable... ...one of the memorable take-aways is what will serve as hard blockers to continuance is lack of access to various rare elements required for e.g. batteries. Once re-use exhausts itself, absent global trade, it's game over. :(