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by ajvs 36 days ago
The way Kindles are being forcibly deprecated lately is another good example.
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Yes, cases where the service deprecation causes physical e-waste are particularly egregious but we should also not underestimate the societal cost to breaking peoples workflow just because some company can't be arsed to responsibly sunset a service in a way that gives users options to continue it themselves.