[lubuntu-users] Current State of Spectre and Meltdown

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Tue, 28 May 2019 15:45:12 +0100, Barry Titterton wrote:
>Is 10 years a reasonable time scale for End Of Life support for
>hardware?  

Yes, if human kind wants to go the way of the dodo bird.
No, if not.

>Is it acceptable that some manufacturers are giving much shorter
>support periods, even for serious security issues?  

Yes, if human kind wants to go the way of the dodo bird.
No, if not.

The idea of "Fridays for Future" is very good, it's just that the kids
are not credible, as long as they continue their consumer behaviour. I
know a lot of people around my age, 50+, including myself, who don't
own a mobile phone and who don't need a super fast Internet connection
24/7, if at all. The kids buy a new mobile phone on a yearly basis and
can't stay away from the Internet for longer than half a minute.

IOW what human kind wants is technical progress at any cost. Humans of
all ages pay lip services. If we look into a mirror, we see dodo birds.