Our retired fixer evaluates a purchase by the failures he can imagine: a sealed battery, a vanished account, an unavailable part, or a format nobody can export. He is willing to pay more when the path to continued use is concrete.

For software, longevity means restoration, understandable files, and honest service dependencies. Permanent ownership claims feel credible only when recovery has been designed too.

Durability is a future action, not a texture.
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