#obsolescence — Public Fediverse posts
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“You should never wait for the world to catch up to your obsolescence." - Futurist Jim Carroll
Here's a truth to consider: your gut feels the pivot long before your head admits it.
Sometimes we are forced into a career change or pivot. Other times, we need to make the decision on our own.
Either way, it's a gut-wrenching moment.
I know that when I was thinking about leaving the corporate world behind back in 1990, I was pretty miserable. My career track had changed due to a merger; my opportunities vanished; my successful path forward was now in doubt. And yet, I struggled mightily with the idea of moving from career certainty to becoming a self-employed unknown chasing a future that didn't yet exist.
But I went through with it, and it turned out to be the right thing to do.
Here's what I've learned in the decades since: when a pivot is forced on you, you go through something a lot like the stages of grief: shock, denial, anger, and eventually acceptance. When the pivot is your own choice, the same thing happens, just in slow motion. You sit in denial that things have to change. You get angry that they have to. And eventually, hopefully, you accept it.
As I wrote in my book Now What? Reinvention and the Role of Optimism in Finding Your New Future, the faster you get to acceptance, the quicker you can reinvent.
So how do you get to acceptance? You learn to recognize the signals. Some triggers will tell you when it's time:
The expiry of your relevance
The "soul-crushing" signal
The need for reinvention velocity
The "Sunday night" signal
Read about them in the full post.
And one trigger that sits apart from the rest: if you are drowning your career misery in substance abuse, the pivot question has already answered itself. The first move isn't a career change. It's getting help, from yourself or from someone trained to give it. The pivot comes after.
Here's the filter, though: not every bad week is a signal. Burnout, a difficult client, a rough quarter — those are weather, not climate. The triggers above only matter when they become persistent, structural, and patterned. If a vacation fixes it, it wasn't a pivot signal.
You should never find yourself thinking "I should have jumped sooner."
Because when you wonder if it's time to pivot, it probably already is.
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Futurist Jim Carroll is writing this series, The Art of the Infinite Pivot, because he thinks he has mastered the art of the pivot!**#Obsolescence** **#Pivot** **#Gut** **#Signals** **#Acceptance** **#Change** **#Reinvention** **#Relevance** **#Triggers** **#Career** **#Freelance** **#Lessons** **#Denial** **#Grief** **#Movement** **#NowWhat** **#Optimism** **#Soul** **#AI** **#Recognition**
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👾 Tu veux agir pour éviter le gaspillage de 300 millions d'ordinateurs provoqué par l'arrêt des mises à jour de Windows 10 ?
👾 Tu veux aider les gens à passer massivement leurs ordinateurs sous Linux ?
👾 Tu veux savoir si ton ordinateur est concerné et que faire ?
Rendez-vous en ligne ce mardi 5 mai à 18h, on t'explique tout avec l'équipe de Piratons Microsoft !
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Nogent: Les cafés du Logiciel Libre, Le vendredi 8 mai 2026 de 14h30 à 16h30. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/33398 #linux #logicielsLibres #gnuLinux #découverte #café #apprentissage #permanence #bureautique #obsolescence #informatiqueLibre #ailes52
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L'April a participé à une opération collective devant le siège de Microsoft France vendredi 24 avril 2026 https://linuxfr.org/news/l-april-a-participe-a-une-operation-collective-devant-le-siege-de-microsoft-france-vendredi-24-avril-2026 #obsolescence_programmée #obsolescence #Communauté #action
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🗃️ ARCHIVE : « L'obsolescence de Murphy » (2025)
Une chronique qui parle de comment les objets plus complexes ont plus de chance de tomber en panne, ce qui est une des nombreuses raisons d'aimer le low-tech.
▶️ https://grisebouille.net/lhdg25-lobsolescence-de-murphy/
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🎉 Behold, the ultimate cheat sheet for Claude Code, because everyone loves memorizing endless #shortcuts that will be outdated by tomorrow! 🤔 If you enjoy reading change logs for breakfast, this auto-updated relic is your holy grail of #obsolescence. 🚀
https://cc.storyfox.cz #ClaudeCode #CheatSheet #AutoUpdate #HackerNews #ngated -
La troisième édition du #RepairCaféPlateau se tiendra le 22 mars, à l'école Louis-Hippolyte-Lafontaine, sur la rue Berri. J'espère pouvoir y être cette fois-ci, je ne travaille pas pour le moment. 🤞
Un rendez-vous citoyen important pour apprendre à ne plus jeter les objets sans tenter de les réparer : https://centreduplateau.qc.ca/communautaire/repair-cafe-plateau/
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Earlier generations of Si-PV last longer, for example the original Si-PV cell (1 cm thick), 70 years old, is still operational.
"The thickness of the solar cells has been decreased... These changes have rendered the cells more brittle and susceptible to fracture while handling, storage and lamination of the module."
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#PVdecay #ewaste #EOL #obsolescence
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/331501514_Cracks_in_silicon_photovoltaic_modules_A_review
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AIB want me to buy a new phone to get Android 10 rather than 9 to be able to use their mobile app. I'll continue with the website banking.
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I really enjoy reading the expanding literature on #invariance of #ValueSets. Two interesting papers and a taxonomy regarding #obsolescence
1- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11136-024-03770-5
2- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1098301525062072
3- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40273-025-01476-1
"As time and methods advance, the bedrock of applied valuation research naturally becomes increasingly unreliable, and, as a field, we need to consider how to approach this challenge."
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#Bose #OpenSources its #SoundTouch home theater #SmartSpeakers ahead of end-of-life
If companies insist on bricking gadgets, this is a better way to do it.
Scharon Harding – Jan 7, 2026 1:51 PM |
102"Bose released the Application Programming Interface (API) documentation for its SoundTouch speakers today, putting a silver lining around the impending end-of-life (#EoL) of the expensive home theater devices.
"In October, Bose announced that its SoundTouch Wi-Fi speakers and soundbars would become dumb speakers on February 18. At the time, Bose said that the speakers would only work if a device was connected via #AUX, #HDMI, or #Bluetooth (which has higher latency than Wi-Fi).
"After that date, the speakers would stop receiving security and software updates and lose cloud connectivity and their companion app, the Framingham, Massachusetts-based company said. Without the app, users would no longer be able to integrate the device with music services, such as Spotify, have multiple SoundTouch devices play the same audio simultaneously, or use or edit saved presets.
"The announcement frustrated some of Bose’s long-time customers, some of whom own multiple SoundTouch devices that still function properly. Many questioned companies’ increasingly common practice of bricking expensive products to focus on new devices or to minimize costs, or because they’ve gone through acquisitions or bankruptcy. SoundTouch speakers released in 2013 and 2015 with prices ranging from $399 to $1,500.
"Today, Bose had better news. In an email to customers, Bose announced that #AirPlay and #SpotifyConnect will still work with SoundTouch speakers after EoL, expanding the wireless capabilities that people will still be able to access.
"Additionally, SoundTouch devices that support #AirPlay2 will be able to play the same audio simultaneously.
"The SoundTouch app will also live on, albeit stripped of some functionality."
#SolarPunkSunday #BoseProducts #Obsolescence #AudioSpeakers #HomeTheater #OpenSource
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Lille: Conférence : Textiles, objets, logiciels ? Et si on faisait les durer ?, Le vendredi 17 octobre 2025 de 18h30 à 20h30. https://www.agendadulibre.org/events/33334 #obsolescence #durabilité #logiciels #conférence #adieuWindows
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Offrez une nouvelle vie à votre ordi ! :debian:
📆 samedi 18 octobre 2025
📌 Salle Unia, Place de la Gare 3 #Fleurie #suisseromande :ch_Neuchatel:- Dès 9h : Nous vous aidons à remplacer Windows ou MacOS par un système d’exploitation libre, simple, sûr, performant… et durable.
- Dès 17h : Projection et discussion autour du film “La bataille du libre” version courte (~56 minutes).
- Fin vers 19h.https://logiciel-libre.ch/evenement/2025.10.18
#linux #TechDurable #ZéroDéchet #obsolescence #AdieuWindows #windows10
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Un año más de soporte gratuito a Windows 10: Microsoft extiende las actualizaciones gratuitas de seguridad de Windows 10 hasta octubre de 2026 gracias a la presión de las organizaciones de consumidores.
https://www.ocu.org/tecnologia/ordenadores-portatiles/noticias/prorroga-actualizaciones-windows10
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Un año más de soporte gratuito a Windows 10: Microsoft extiende las actualizaciones gratuitas de seguridad de Windows 10 hasta octubre de 2026 gracias a la presión de las organizaciones de consumidores.
https://www.ocu.org/tecnologia/ordenadores-portatiles/noticias/prorroga-actualizaciones-windows10
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El derecho a reparar se lo pasan por el forro estás empresas alemanas. 🤬🤬🤬
¿Que coño hacen nuestros diputados sobre esto?
#obsolescence #programmedobsolescence
#obsolescencia
#obsolescenciaprogramada
#derechoareparar
#ue #españa
#legislation #legislacion
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#Windows10 "end-of-life"
Sign the petition to keep #Win10 updates free & have them suggest #Linux as alternative to Win!
https://www.halteobsolescence.org/petitions/non-a-la-taxe-windows/
"On October 14th, Microsoft will impose a new "tax" on Windows 10 users. The multinational will stop free updates for Windows 10 and force millions of users to upgrade to Windows 11.
Up to 400 million laptops in the world will not be compatible with this new OS version
In France, thousands of people, hospitals, public administrations and companies are concerned. Microsoft either forces us to pay a subscription in order to keep usable and secure our devices, or to buy new ones. "Sign the petition to support:
✅ Free updates of Windows 10 for all until 2030
✅ A law for free software updates during at least 15 years for laptops
✅ The obligation to inform users on solutions to move towards free softwaresH/T @nclm for the original post:
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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions
http://vmchale.com/static/serve/taxonomy.html
#HackerNews #Obsolescence #Political #Definitions #Politics #Technology #Society
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🤖 Oh, the irony! Humans handwrite a tedious manifesto on the necessity of #manual #labor while simultaneously dreading their inevitable #obsolescence by robots. If only these ivory tower thinkers knew that writing about AI's inadequacy is the ultimate exercise in #futility. 😂💻
https://www.ssp.sh/brain/will-ai-replace-humans/ #irony #AI #tech #humor #HackerNews #ngated -
Caméra #Imilab EC2 : RIP la réparabilité ! 😡Test d’une Imilab EC2 en 2021. 4,5 ans après : panne batterie.
Remplacement ? LOL. Il faut chauffer, décoller, arracher, tout démonter… pour trouver un pack 18650 + BMS indémontable, scellé Marre des produits jetables !
#obsolescence
#reparabilite #obsolescence #batterieHS #caméra #DIY #IoT #Imilab #reparation #framboise314 #testproduit #tech #fail #surveillance #batterie #obsolescenceprogrammee #maker #review #ecologie #diytech #technews -
Les machines Apple ont beaucoup d’avantages mais si on peut éviter leur #obsolescence imposée ainsi que les #réparabilité abjecte , on trouve des machines aussi bien sous #Linux et ultra plus durables.
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It's a real low point when your screen is so ancient that even in complete darkness, you have to light up the room just to see what's on it!
...Or maybe it's just my eyes 😆
#tech #aging #humor #fullbrightness #joke #technology #fun #funny #retro #obsolescence #screen #monitor #led #brightness #light #night #darkness #hardware #notebook #pc #laptop #power #techhumor #oldbutgold #life
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Spitting and cussing. Can't share my latest #publication #pembrokepapers because it's a *.pdf on my not iconic, wate of space #iMac #apple #MacIsTosh . The more time I spend on it the more convinced it's a huge con. The #capitalist theory of inbuilt #obsolescence & pandering to some #yankee idea of #style . It has about as much style as a #playboy #centrefold. And #starmer 's bed hopping with them. Give me strength. Next issue to be set and printed by hand thanks to Mr Caxton. Grr...End rant.
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Spitting and cussing. Can't share my latest #publication #pembrokepapers because it's a *.pdf on my not iconic, wate of space #iMac #apple #MacIsTosh . The more time I spend on it the more convinced it's a huge con. The #capitalist theory of inbuilt #obsolescence & pandering to some #yankee idea of #style . It has about as much style as a #playboy #centrefold. And #starmer 's bed hopping with them. Give me strength. Next issue to be set and printed by hand thanks to Mr Caxton. Grr...End rant.
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Spitting and cussing. Can't share my latest #publication #pembrokepapers because it's a *.pdf on my not iconic, wate of space #iMac #apple #MacIsTosh . The more time I spend on it the more convinced it's a huge con. The #capitalist theory of inbuilt #obsolescence & pandering to some #yankee idea of #style . It has about as much style as a #playboy #centrefold. And #starmer 's bed hopping with them. Give me strength. Next issue to be set and printed by hand thanks to Mr Caxton. Grr...End rant.
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Spitting and cussing. Can't share my latest #publication #pembrokepapers because it's a *.pdf on my not iconic, wate of space #iMac #apple #MacIsTosh . The more time I spend on it the more convinced it's a huge con. The #capitalist theory of inbuilt #obsolescence & pandering to some #yankee idea of #style . It has about as much style as a #playboy #centrefold. And #starmer 's bed hopping with them. Give me strength. Next issue to be set and printed by hand thanks to Mr Caxton. Grr...End rant.
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Spitting and cussing. Can't share my latest #publication #pembrokepapers because it's a *.pdf on my not iconic, wate of space #iMac #apple #MacIsTosh . The more time I spend on it the more convinced it's a huge con. The #capitalist theory of inbuilt #obsolescence & pandering to some #yankee idea of #style . It has about as much style as a #playboy #centrefold. And #starmer 's bed hopping with them. Give me strength. Next issue to be set and printed by hand thanks to Mr Caxton. Grr...End rant.
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Can Hackers Bring Jooki Back to Life? - Another day, another Internet-connected gadget that gets abandoned by its creators... - https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/can-hackers-bring-jooki-back-to-life/ #digitalaudiohacks #obsolescence #smartspeaker #bankruptcy #rootaccess #toyhacks #jooki
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Can Hackers Bring Jooki Back to Life? https://hackaday.com/2025/03/30/can-hackers-bring-jooki-back-to-life/ #digitalaudiohacks #obsolescence #smartspeaker #bankruptcy #rootaccess #ToyHacks #jooki
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#NewZealand: #RightToRepair Amendment Bill a critical 'first step' for consumers
20 February 2025
"New Zealand has been 'lagging behind' the rest of the world in offering repairs for products, an advocate says.
"Kiwis are now a step closer to the guaranteed right to repair the products they own with the Consumer Guarantees (Right to Repair) Amendment Bill passing its first reading in Parliament on Wednesday.
"If successful, the legislation would compel manufacturers to ensure repair facilities and spare parts for their products are made available in New Zealand.
"#GreenParty co-leader #MaramaDavidson who has sponsored the bill said it combined climate action with cost of living relief.
"'The Right to Repair is about empowering consumers to repair what they own, protecting them from recurring costs and in turn preventing more and more waste going to #landfill and polluting our #environment.'
"She believed it would favour consumers over big corporates 'who build #obsolescence into their products so people have to keep coming back to replace their things and spend more of their money'.
"It would benefit households as well as businesses including farmers who would be able to fix the appliances and the tools they needed to do their jobs.
"Auckland University Professor and member of the Right to Repair Coalition Alex Simms calls it a 'first step'.
"It was a worldwide movement and New Zealand was "lagging behind', she told Morning Report.
"Simms said one drawback of the existing bill was that the Commerce Commission would not have the power to compel manufacturers to comply because it is an amendment to the Consumer Guarantees Act.
"One suggestion that arose during the debate in Parliament was that it should become part of the #FairTradingAct so that #ComCom would have enforcement powers.
"Also, currently if a consumer takes an item such as a phone to an unauthorised repairer a warranty becomes void - that would no longer apply if the bill became law, Professor Simms said.
"'That will really help people get stuff fixed a lot cheaper."
https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/542440/right-to-repair-amendment-bill-a-critical-first-step-for-consumers-advocate
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En route pour le ministère de la culture, où je suis audité par la mission environnement du CSPLA sur le thème de l #obsolescence #numerique #programmee en tant que VP #AFUL
Le sujet est d'importance, la #sobriété #numérique il ne faut pas qu'en parler. #RepairLab numérique pour agir -
postmarketOS Now Boots on Over 250 Devices https://hackaday.com/2024/06/17/postmarketos-now-boots-on-over-250-devices/ #SoftwareDevelopment #customfirmware #obsolescence #postmarketos #upcycling #News
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postmarketOS Now Boots on Over 250 Devices - Every year, as consumers gobble up the latest Android devices, more old, but perfe... - https://hackaday.com/2024/06/17/postmarketos-now-boots-on-over-250-devices/ #softwaredevelopment #customfirmware #obsolescence #postmarketos #upcycling #news
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« #Microsoft's war on old PCs appears to have intensified as the latest builds of #Windows11 will not boot if your #CPU doesn't support the SSE4.2 instruction set […] The Reg initially wondered if the #POPCNT problem was simply due to an engineer accidentally enabling some newer CPU instruction sets during compilation, but it now appears that the inclusion was deliberate. »
› https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/23/windows_11_cpu_requirements/
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#sociologie #philosophie
#machines #obsolescence(RP Gore Khaa)
'' Alors que les transhumanistes nous promettent un avenir où les inadaptés deviendront des « chimpanzés du futur », où l’imminence de la catastrophe nucléaire hante notre quotidien, les objets techniques semblent coloniser nos vies à grande vitesse. Comment penser la technique dès lors que la densité, la complexité et la puissance de ses artefacts va croissante, et que notre intimité est investie d’appareils qui médiatisent notre vie dans son entier ? À cette question, Günther Anders semble fournir de salutaires clefs de compréhension.
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Anders se demande à partir des années 1940 dans quelle mesure nous vivons l’époque historique qui réalise l’obsolescence de l’homme par la technique, mû par une certitude :
« Le Sujet de la #liberté et celui de la #soumission sont intervertis ; les choses sont libres, c’est l’homme qui ne l’est pas. » -
#ActuLibre Halte à l’obsolescence programmée (HOP) -> https://tkpx.eu/2020/02/16/halte-a-lobsolescence-programmee-hop/ #obsolescence #électrique #ordinateur #programmée #numérique #téléphone #Politics #halte #Life #hop