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The ol' tealeg 🐡@tealeg@mastodon.online (2026-09-11 16:31:53)
#endof10 was a Microsoft problem, but it doesn't mean it's a problem unique to Microsoft. Apple do it too. Almost all vendors of proprietary software pulls support for older hardware long before its useful life is other. 

Thankfully people are waking up to this and realising that Open Source offers as a practical solution to take back control, save money and reduce environmental impacts.

Even commercially supported Linux isn't safe from this.  As CERN found out:

https://www.techspot.com/news/113745-cern-moving-more-than-2200-specialized-computers-rhel.html