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by letitleak 3670 days ago
I see very little of this in tech and remain pissed at my peers over storage, printers, cpu mmus, mobile phone upgrades, software with no model to reason/guess about how it will implement an unfamiliar feature... I am often happier with a 5 year old hardware product or a 15 year old software one since its not as well tuned for obsolescence as a current one.

For example, 5 year old celerons support 16Gb of ram which makes them useful for another five years, modern celerons support 8Gb making them perfectly engineered for 5 years ago.

[Edit - 5 years ago was 16Gb, 2013 was 32Gb, today's celeron is 8Gb.. progress.]