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As someone who’s been around the block a few hundred times with technology, planned obsolescence has long bothered me.

When Microsoft released Windows 11, it became clear that a lot of hardware wouldn’t support the new version of Windows. Many people ended up having to purchase new systems if they wanted to stick with Windows. For some, that wasn’t an option, so they had to continue using a Windows operating system that would eventually fall…