From kde-community Tue Jan 10 20:02:53 2023 From: Milian Wolff Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 20:02:53 +0000 To: kde-community Subject: Re: request | are you keeping (unsupported) hardware in use by running Plasma? Message-Id: <10395479.FBsdbb3p6I () milian-workstation> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-community&m=167338100729074 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--nextPart7214658.nvQWmRD4p7" --nextPart7214658.nvQWmRD4p7 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"; protected-headers="v1" From: Milian Wolff To: energy-efficiency@kde.org, kde-community@kde.org Cc: "Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss" Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 21:02:53 +0100 Message-ID: <10395479.FBsdbb3p6I@milian-workstation> In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 On Freitag, 9. Dezember 2022 14:01:48 CET Joseph P. De Veaugh-Geiss wrote: > - Distro and desktop environment you use, Kubuntu 22.04 LTS with KDE Plasma 5.24 LTS > - hardware information (RAM, etc.), and MacBook Pro from 2009, I forgot the exact model but something along the lin= es=20 of https://support.apple.com/kb/SP544 > - bonus points if you know that other operating systems have > discontinued support for that hardware (and if possible a link). Afair that machine turned EOL in 2019 with macOS 10.10 Yosemite > Also, feel free to share any stories that may be relevant. For instance, > I convinced my parents some years ago to switch to GNU/Linux when their > previous OS was pushing an update that gave them the unfortunate news > that "This device doesn=E2=80=99t meet minimum system requirements...". T= hey did > not want to buy new hardware since the hardware was still new and worked > just fine. In fact, I believe the laptops were only 3 years old! I got > this email from my mom recently, and I quote: "I am glad that I switched > 95% of the time." It is pretty much that story for me too. The machine above belongs to my=20 father (82 years old) who simply ignored the security issues with running a= n=20 EOL software for as long as 2022. At some point, a security update on our=20 email provider required a new cypher which was not supported by macOS Yosem= ite=20 anymore, so he was not able to read emails anymore. Firefox also stopped=20 delivering updates to that OS. I haven't heard anything really bad from him. The biggest issue is probably= =20 "it doesn't look exactly like what I used for the last ten years", but he's= =20 doing a great job at adapting :) Cheers > Some information about e-waste (to be included in the handbook): >=20 > - E-waste is considered the "fastest-growing waste stream in the world", > with 44.7 million metric tons generated in 2016. [1] This is roughly > equivalent to 4,500 Eiffel towers. [2] >=20 > - In 2018, an estimated 50 million metric tons of e-waste was reported, > motivating the UN to refer to a "tsunami of e-waste rolling out over the > world". [3] >=20 > - The numbers continue to rise: in 2021 an estimated 57 million metric > tons of e-waste was generated globally, a ~25% increase in just 5 years > from 2016. [4] >=20 > - Less than 20% of e-waste is collected and recycled. [5] >=20 > - Although it makes up only 2% of trash in landfills, e-waste > contributes to almost 70% of the toxic waste there. [6] >=20 > [1] > https://www.weforum.org/reports/a-new-circular-vision-for-electronics-tim= e-f > or-a-global-reboot/ [2] > https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Climate-Change/Documents/GEM%202017/Global-E= =2Dwa > ste%20Monitor%202017%20.pdf [3] https://news.un.org/en/story/2015/05/4977= 72 > [4] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-61350996 > [5] https://weee-forum.org/ws_news/international-e-waste-day-2021/ > [6] > https://www.forbes.com/sites/vianneyvaute/2019/04/23/with-love-from-an-or= ego > n-prison-how-eric-lundgren-is-going-to-help-you-recycle-all-your-electron= ics > / =2D-=20 Milian Wolff mail@milianw.de http://milianw.de --nextPart7214658.nvQWmRD4p7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAABCAAdFiEEezawi1aUvUGg3A1+8zYW/HGdOX8FAmO9xG0ACgkQ8zYW/HGd OX+IUQ//UXbQrDZMDOfz2tLJY+PPBDfzO7LpmWlHF5AQZlw4chvEhINLSGcnoZvg eJ1qG2iHLq4Ck547t3LNmxydo2ZU772Cuj16T/3bW0KH4sYWEVWR6fe0x400IyUU JgN8P9trjl9G/kacTz6MEj+jiRvwv3PvUpDXcqlu/sHULfvfzMXfNQxUi28pU7o9 Xwwb2ON1NuPJrSbdsf3ruzA2zRwaBNIkRHt5LS1ISd1HddEdDV1Z4y+bWJGOEGRN wojCZfRVvbL64vbazzT3QeNT6mDL2U26r0SRxohHUFcSJ6G2L8VkOWjGAia/7zqn XB8xK32gZvWNB48XMWJG0Shyh6rBzarg5zasVs4Ete6zUWUpdq30jIek3/xlS/CE 3NyxuPeWWWdTLHtv3nH7uEB7i0tykcWf5x0on3+iBzeO7ZVpKZOeO410PjdDXxfo vb8VaNLf0FU0oBeqv+5qNjOulOfsi78kZ+4YzcyR5+qozap531xqDM6JxmcoxVTt 2UoL9V+DdgZtHHuVbnrqkuutd8uoG5qKoHosTJJVk5gnHIuhmMwMu3tqeXyoK6SX BqQcagI0BIJp6klYQXlEWJdL0kIsyCoXNc0GaDp6nkDhhYFs9Ls+844V4CXHxtoM jUpXdlAaOvjfaWUMKMsUrW3TDuGBHtZmxyUuvIsS7BW3qLQT0Nw= =V/mu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7214658.nvQWmRD4p7--