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Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to SSD Shortage (petapixel.com)
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[โ€“] wide_eyed_stupid@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

True enough, my previous phone I kept until my banking app stopped working (my very, very old version of android was no longer supported) and my current phone is from 2019. I don't think people need new phones/tablets/computers every year.

However.. eventually I'm going to be needing a new computer. My desktop is about 6 years old now. And if it broke down right now, I don't even know if I could afford to build a new one, unless I build one that's worse than the one I currently own - and probably way more expensive than it was years ago (the RAM price alone is insane already).

And my phone won't last another 6 years either. Although, who knows, it might. It seems indestructible so far, lol.

[โ€“] clif@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I've been dreading the new computer as well. I built the original incarnation of my current one in ... holy shit, late 2013. I was thinking 2016 but I just looked up the order and it was 2013. I did it pretty damn "top of the line" because I wanted it to last ages. I have occasionally upgraded or replaced drives, GPU, RAM, power supply, but I'm still on the original board+CPU.

It's still great... running Linux and occasionally gaming.