There are few things quite as emblematic of late stage capitalism than the concept of “planned obsolescence”.

    • outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org
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      1 year ago

      I wonder what it would look like without these measures?

      Back in My Day™, we had minimal MDM on the school computers.

      Yes, the kids that wanted to fuck around (look at porn, download music, play games) fucked around, but they would have the old-fashioned way, anyway. The most common thing was just changing the desktop photo to a Lamborghini, or something. Anyway, we turned out…. Well… not necessarily ok, but I don’t fault the computers for lack thereof where applicable.

      Admittedly, these weren’t personal laptops but just ones in the library or computer labs, but still.