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Very very nice. Confirmed a few dates I knew and some I wasn't aware of. Maybe helpful note that Windows 7 is not technically EOL but ESU https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/lifecycle/faq/extended-secu... January 10, 2023
The bricks my house is made of are now 119 years old. They haven't received any updates or substantial maintenance. The guy who made them is dead. His company is gone. Yet they are still functional and secure. They still work with the latest screws. If I had to switch out my bricks every 5 years, I don't think I'd have any time or money left for the rest of life. Can we make software that's a little more like my bric…
> Can we make software that's a little more like my bricks? Excellent. This is a great analogy! - Did the weather in your area change? Maybe you live in Texas and experienced an abnormally huge freeze in 2020 which cause most people to have to replace plumbing and water heaters? - Maybe you are experiencing more hurricanes than normal and so flooding has become more likely. Now you need to put your house up on stilts…
* I used to manage EOL notifications for a semiconductor co. There is an industry-std process for doing so.
* EOL announcements came with pre-warning timelines. 12 months' warning, for example.
* EOL dates were usually shared only with verified customers to keep the churn to a minimum. Alternative suppliers (with SKUs) were encouraged.
* Product lines with EOL data was kept on a firewalled site for sales & customer lookups.
* There were a couple of 3rd party & startup cos that tried to aggregate EOL dates, with minimal success.
thought this was a dating app for hospice patients
That name. I clicked thinking it was about people in a hospice dating. Glad it's nothing so morbid.
I’m not sure what I’m supposed to see, but all there is is a pitch for an end of life app and a link to GitHub and other supporting sites that talk about a project vaguely but don’t provide any content or examples. Is there an issue with a data store or does the site not work in Safari (iOS)?
Would be nice for this to have some sort of iCal integration.