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Planned Obsolescence Sucks - By Honovy
Honovy portrayed Mina repairing herself.Probably one of those updates froze her legs or something.
One thing i always wonder is... why do people think things will be different in the future?
They will certainly be better, but different? I doubt it.
In this case the android was not made completely useless by an update but unless you use "corporate approved stuff" you will encounter problems when updating your software.
Maybe a tolerance that was given is not there anymore because somebody exploited it and it was becoming a problem for the corporate image.
Maybe something you were using was deemed a security risk due to unrelated reasons because somebody else exploited it.
Evolution was never meant to be mandatory, but contextual.
But people? They just can't stop messing and exploiting stuff for their own advantage.
And corporations do not deal with "contextual". They do mandatory blanket coverage. Uniform or die.
Which, for a company is a win/win. With updates:
• They stamp out known exploits by evil people that use them to do evil unto other people.
• They can test out new features demanded by the customers.
• Which, being new, will open more unforeseen and unforeseeable exploits to more people to take advantage of for evil against other people.
• Which will prompt more updates.
• Which will eventually make your current machine worthless.
This is why your wonderful state of the art machine gets reduced to a crawling mess.
This is why stuff you were using for work stops functioning all of a sudden.
This is why... it will be a problem when androids will be a thing that receives security updates that will cripple them.
And old saying said "if it is not broken do not fix it" because improving stuff leads to complexity and complexity expands until it is unmanageable.
The problem is... without complexity we would not have what we have today. You cannot have "a simple world" and also "an easy world".
"Ease of use" only comes with extreme complexity. And there is a price to pay.
You press a button and the elevator takes you to the desired floor. Or you take a step after another and you reach the desired floor. Have you ever thought about the long (and it is extremely long) list of people who worked even on something as simple as those two things? Building regulations and how they evolved and all the people who worked and died to make things possible. Yes, people died for even your stairs today.
From the quarries, to the tools used to the regulations...
if you start to think about it and all the people involved
and the history that brought you what you have today...
And then you check the tools used to build it...
their respective history...
their regulations...
the people involved on those tools.
Where the elements came from, and how were they grown or mined.
And then you check the tools used to make those tools...
The easy and simple things of today, are all but easy and simple.
The level of complexity involved often times is multiple times higher for something "simple" as some building's stairs than for an elevator or for a computer.
You just... never think about it. It's a given. It's simple. It's easy.
Well... Mina right now knows that she cannot fight the mandatory updates.
She will have to get them.
Or her brain will literally die.
But also she now needs to re-design some drivers to work within those updates.
Because she used nonstandard replacements.
Because they were cheaper.
And robots don't exactly get paid like people for their work.
After all "they don't need food, or health care, or a living space!".
Except they do. Just not the way we think of them.
And after all... who cares about an android when you can just trash it and buy a new one.
A newer model, one with less problems, one that is... easier.
Better start thinking how to port your brain to some open source thing that you can manage yourself... if you have the time you will need to spend managing yourself in addition to working and achieving the minimum required to have the time to manage yourself.
You really cannot win.
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I hadn't really thought about that problem before. It is almost analogous to old age for organic beings, that complexity + time = malfunctions. The more time you spend trying to fix yourself, the more time is lost to you. The system gets more complex and run down and the malfunctions begin to build up faster than you can fix them, even if you devoted yourself to it 24/7. You can't just start from scratch or replace the system without destroying yourself, and you can't outsource the problem without significant expenditure, and even then, you are just pushing off the eventual collapse. Whether organic or mechanical, time makes a mockery of all.
"Perfect, Immortal, Machine" yeah, it never existed.
We live in a society, so either we help each other... or we die alone.
Because, no matter what you might think, you can't live if you are alone.
Some people think they can, they just forget (or prefer not to think of), how much work goes into all that they use "to live alone".
We live in a society, so either we help each other... or we die alone.
Because, no matter what you might think, you can't live if you are alone.
Some people think they can, they just forget (or prefer not to think of), how much work goes into all that they use "to live alone".
They don't give one because nobody wants it... sooo we are left with undocumented stuff that nobody would bother documenting because nobody wants to read the documents.
I still remember the first PC i bought had a full manual documenting all the dos commands and how they interacted with each other, giving a brief introduction to how to make batch files.
Nowadays i just go to https://ss64.com/nt/ and call it "yeah that works"
I still remember the first PC i bought had a full manual documenting all the dos commands and how they interacted with each other, giving a brief introduction to how to make batch files.
Nowadays i just go to https://ss64.com/nt/ and call it "yeah that works"
Some people like me prefer to have a manual, so we can at least have the option of checking it one day!
The things about just going to the net is that in a way, it's just you having to call experts to understand what you're using... the very thing a manual is supposed to make unnecessary. And it lets someone else, who may not give a crap and almost certainly doesn't know you exist, decide when to toss or lose your 'manual'.
Funniest of all to me is net-based help for internet-related issues. If you have certain kinds of problems, they're impossible to consult from the device offering them. And I understand a decent number of major retail chains have IT support that's let on-the-ground presence atrophy in favor of fixing things through the network.
It's led to some funny stories from my roommate; they seemed at a loss when a problem wouldn't let them do that, or they had to guide people through a hardware-maintenance situation where things looked different from what they expected.
The things about just going to the net is that in a way, it's just you having to call experts to understand what you're using... the very thing a manual is supposed to make unnecessary. And it lets someone else, who may not give a crap and almost certainly doesn't know you exist, decide when to toss or lose your 'manual'.
Funniest of all to me is net-based help for internet-related issues. If you have certain kinds of problems, they're impossible to consult from the device offering them. And I understand a decent number of major retail chains have IT support that's let on-the-ground presence atrophy in favor of fixing things through the network.
It's led to some funny stories from my roommate; they seemed at a loss when a problem wouldn't let them do that, or they had to guide people through a hardware-maintenance situation where things looked different from what they expected.
The one I remember best was how an IT person kept reassuring him he just needed to plug something into a given numbered cable port.
He shut up once texted a photo of the spaghetti-monster of a networking device right above the work zone, blocking it with a curtain of unlabeled cables.
He shut up once texted a photo of the spaghetti-monster of a networking device right above the work zone, blocking it with a curtain of unlabeled cables.
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