> Buying new clothing because of yearly trends is way to damaging to the environment for what it's worth.
I read this as I rock along on my Thinkpad x200 and read it on a forum where people regularly defend the use of electron apps and gush over the latest sumptuous macbooks with gobs of memory.
"But, but, I need those for my work"
And so might these people who buy clothes because of yearly trends.
"But that's different!"
No, it's not.
It's not up to me to say anyone shouldn't enjoy your latest laptop, but I think it's good to realise that the large majority of people who work in software are in a precarious position to be handing out edicts about what should and shouldn't be considered "incredibly wasteful" and what is "damaging the environment".
Maybe there are lots of different people on the site who have different opinions and what you’re seeing is not a majority agreeing on an inconsistent opinion but rather many people with different internally consistent (or even internally inconsistent) ideas.
I read this as I rock along on my Thinkpad x200 and read it on a forum where people regularly defend the use of electron apps and gush over the latest sumptuous macbooks with gobs of memory.
"But, but, I need those for my work"
And so might these people who buy clothes because of yearly trends.
"But that's different!"
No, it's not.
It's not up to me to say anyone shouldn't enjoy your latest laptop, but I think it's good to realise that the large majority of people who work in software are in a precarious position to be handing out edicts about what should and shouldn't be considered "incredibly wasteful" and what is "damaging the environment".