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sneak ◴[] No.45144551[source]
Serious question: how long do you expect cloud hardware vendors to support the servers for their products? 10 years? 20? 30?
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thakoppno ◴[] No.45144957[source]
We’re retiring something like this at work. The devices were manufactured between 2009-2017. They will continue to operate in non-smart mode until some other part of the device breaks. We’ve notified customers and no one seems particularly upset. To a large degree it seems like the fleet’s obsolete and we could’ve pulled the plug a couple years ago. There’s probably not a good answer in a general sense. It really depends on a host of things.
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1. M95D ◴[] No.45145254[source]
> no one seems particularly upset

I wonder if that's because the ones that would be upset never bought them in the first place.