[Boatanchors] Why modern gadgets vacuum your wallet when...

[Louis Ciotti]

The reference to keeping computer long term, really does bug me.  Heck even
smartphone replacement bugs me.  My biggest problem it this is that for
example I but the best computer money can but today.  It works fast, it
does what i need it to do. Then as time goes, and software "updates" that
are now forced upon the user.... do this for  then 3-4 years from now, and
you find yourself doing the same tasks with the same software, but now on
that very same machine that was lightning fast, now takes 10 seconds to
load that picture that used to take 2 seconds, that 3-D model takes 60
seconds to load that took 10 seconds.

I blame it on band-aid patch after band-aid patch made by developers that
are on yearly refresh cycles for computers, and on their build machines
they do not see these delays.  I would be willing to bet that is someone
were to do a comparison of two exact machines doing the exact same things,
but one was left to no updates, basically air-gaped from the internet and
updates, and one that is always updated, we would find that the
non-airgaped machine would be slower than the air-gaped machine. This of
course is strictly speaking about non-internet related tasks, just software
running locally.