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   Dutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️ (dutchbarracuda@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 05:10:16 JST Dutch Barracuda🏳️‍🌈🛠☢️🌎♻️

   I so want heirloom consumer electronics to become a common thing.
   Fridges and freezers that are 75 years old, and have run continuously.
   Washing machines that outlive their owners.
   Even modern devices, like phones or computers, that become family heirlooms, passed down from parent to child.
   And I want the people that manufacture and repair these machines to be as respected as lawyers or doctors. Artisan electricians and repair men.

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     Daniel Durrans (dan@mastodon.durrans.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 05:27:52 JST Daniel Durrans

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     • Tyrone Slothrop

     @dutchbarracuda @slothrop then we can describe tech based on the reigning British monarch.

     Here we have a late Elizabethan Nokia 3210.

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     Daniel Durrans (dan@mastodon.durrans.com)'s status on Tuesday, 24-Dec-2024 05:33:41 JST Daniel Durrans

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     • Tyrone Slothrop

     @dutchbarracuda @slothrop Antiques Roadshow but for tech!

     "This is a wonderfully early example of an Apple iPhone produced in the Foxcon factories of Zhengzhou. If you look very carefully on the back you can see the conformity certifications. In later models this information moved from the hardware to the software. At auction today this would likely sell for…”