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Each ring will be contributing to the growing e-waste problem after a couple of years or so.

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[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times: opensource after deprecation. The product isn't supported, maintained, for any reason: open source the entire thing.

It should not be in a company's interest to release products that just become bricks or junk without their input. It's not in our interest either.

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Not exactly relevant, but there is The European Citizens initiative to do that for games you can sign: https://www.stopkillinggames.com

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Signed and shared with friends in the EU.

Here's another one to sign https://publiccode.eu

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