> you have to do something to fight the entropy. Stuff breaks. So you fix it. Boring old stuff needs fixing too sometimes. Problem is, old stuff gets obsolete,

> you have to do something to fight the entropy. Stuff breaks. So you fix it. Boring old stuff needs fixing too sometimes. Problem is, old stuff gets obsolete, can't get replacement parts, because of progress. (or something). It's the same story since the first looms were made centuries ago. What you can't fix you can't really depend on. Our time scales are just compressed to ridiculousness because the pace of change is off the charts these days. So basically, you can't really depend on anything working more than a few months before falling over. Sucks.