> A look at the so-called Smart TV reinforces the observation about CE culture. In less than two years, the CPU inside the TV quickly becomes obsolete and can’t be upgraded while the display itself easily lasts a decade, and software updates are persphinctery, if they happen at all.
Evocative term ("persphinctery"), what does it mean? A web search mostly references mondaynote.
When mashing prefixes onto words in a way which is unfamiliar, it's usually customary to use a hyphen. E.g. "post-fact[0]" instead of "postfact". Strangely, to me, the former seems to imply that "post-" is a prefix while the latter seems to be a fact involving postal mail.
Given that you put the letters together, it is a word. The only question is how many understand it, and which dictionaries (if any) you can find it in.
I think it's a corruption of "persnickety," which in my experience means "overly precise" as in a lock can be persnickety because dirt gets in and fouls the workings because there's no room for grime in the lock.
>In less than two years, the CPU inside the TV quickly becomes obsolete
If it's Linux based, this just means that the SoC vendor hasn't kept the board support package (BSP) up to date.
These kinds of things are hardly ever mainlined, so it becomes difficult to update drivers, kernel versions and then even software versions (think X11)
Evocative term ("persphinctery"), what does it mean? A web search mostly references mondaynote.