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>Today, your example eight-years-obsolete install base of Android starts with version 4.2, which occupies 0.8 percent of the market.

Instead of hoping that the 0.8% will shrink over the next 4 years, Let's Encrypt should understand that the 0.8% are the sane, reasonable people who realize that their Android devices still work fine for their intended purpose and do not have to be mindlessly upgraded because of mass-media pressure.

We should work instead to expand that 0.8% to avoid ripping out the heart of the planet for pointless capitalism.

This is one of the reasons why I objected to Let's Encrypt in the first place. Anyone who takes any measure to make older devices obsolete when they are still perfectly capable should be ashamed!

We are in the middle of a mass extinction; we have destroyed the oceans with plastic and runoff; we have created an environmental catastrophe. Mindless media-driven consumerism must stop.

parent zelienople 5 years ago

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