Hold on to Your Hardware
28 points by acatton
28 points by acatton
That PC, laptop, NAS, or home server isn’t disposable anymore
It never was!! And anyone who ever thought that was completely out of their mind…
I liked this article a lot and even stopped forever postponing the assemble of a new desktop computer waiting for RAM prices to come down. Unfortunately had to stick to DDR4, though.
Still, it was deleted from the site when it was posted a little over a month ago (2026-02-20 08:18 in the moderation log, can't link directly to it): https://lobste.rs/s/zpotiy/hold_on_your_hardware
I thought articles couldn't be re-submitted after deletion?
Still, it was deleted from the site when it was posted a little over a month ago
And the reason being "Business analysis is off-topic". I think that was a bad moderation call :(
The article is really good i think, and the points it makes about the general push for rent-only consumerism applied to computing are very poignant. I also enjoy the author's writing a lot; it never feels like a trudge to read their articles completely.
Now that i think about it, the moderation message is quite ironic. This article is as far as "business analysis" as it gets. It could better be described as anti-big-business analysis TBH.
Really cool article, very well written. Technical in places, but also funny in others. Good job! PS: switch to another tab while reading the article 0_o
god I hate sites that do this
Do you know of other sites that do this?
This one in particular, i've grown lo love it TBH. It's a very tongue-in-cheek way conveying the message.
It's not uncommon with shitty webshops as a pressure thing (although they usually don't stoop so low to switch out the favicon)
Ah you're right! Those "Hurry up! Last item in stock of <product you absolutely don't need but searched for in an escapist attempt to momentarily forget about the soulless monotony that is the current human condition>, don't miss it!"
(although they usually don't stoop so low to switch out the favicon)
That's just the mark of craftsmanship :)
Eh, this one's quite tame. I've seen ones that animate the title.
... and turning off Javascript is a great trick for decluttering news sites and the such. I've got a box that advertises uBlock Origin on my site for much the same reason: Most people don't know that they control their browser.
I think it would be funnier if the site itself didn't open up images in separate windows/tabs.