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but also for IKEA.

Not really a fan of their products, but I hear the refund policy is pretty good.

In the words of my my sister...


Grrr.

Sweden has become the capital of Iceland? Or are you referring to the sprengidagur they server? ....
Maybe you got your Vikings mixed up there

swedes everywhere are disgusted at your misattribution of their greatest contribution to the world: flat-packed furniture made from cheap MDF

id pork the blonde ! ............ but then I`d **** the crack of dawn if I could get up early enough

Computers, the internet, and technology in general is about the most blatant example of the disposable culture, just saying.

I do not necessarily like IKEA, but it is cheap, easy to put together, extremely functional, and in my case moves, lasts and trades very well.





That is a very interesting combination indeed. Icelandic history has been interesting to read about.

Yeah, very true, I have a lot of vinyl myself, but we are probably the exceptions to the rule.

As for IKEA, I have never been to the store. I have bought the stuff second hand in my past and the pieces I put together were bought for my daughter by her mother. It is not prefered by me by any means, but I am utilitarian and work with what I have or is the most affordable at the time. My new place will not have any as all my old stuff has been donated to GOODWILL and I have the income to buy stuff to fit the house and my tastes.

The underlying operating systems may stay the same, but you will adding and upgrading machines until the day you die. The shells, the screens, all the hardware, your phones, your speakers.... we are a consumption based society now. The lanfills are not shrinking in size. We are the disposable culture.

I would hazard many of us, who remember land lines , have had a few more cell phones then we ever had land lines.

I know people that change their televisions like their underware.

Sure, but remember to whom you are addressing here. Sure it's a game community, but it's a polished out old game. This may be a factor in the types of people in the community. We may have older computers that we squeeze every ounce of life out of, and then find other uses for when it's really just too old for most stuff, but useful for other tasks. I mean it's one thing to have the technical skill levels to run a new computer, but another to keep something going indefinitely, even to the superior skill levels required, even antiquated in all it's forms, but with the mix of the contemporary and the classic.

Even the things we look for when buying, such as in smartphones. Yes there are the disposable kinds, but then there are the kinds that you can root and modify, doing things that the manufacturer didn't even anticipate when designed.

It's just I imagine many here are more technologically sophisticated than to be among those that constantly throw new things out for the newer, not when something can be hacked, cracked, reprogrammed, upgraded, reconfigured and reintegrated. Like my 2yo laptop, click of death. Did I toss it and get a new model? Nope, pulled it apart, dropped in an SSD drive, now it runs better then before and on Linux rather than bloated windows. At this point, I'll probably get use out of it for the next 5-10yrs.

So maybe other places this may hold more true, but I think the sort here, at least more than there, are probably a little different than the typical consumer you may find.