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I don't think I've lived in one place that long ever in my life. This is some amazing engineering, considering everything I own breaks after about 5 years.
by lambda_obrien 6y ago
I don't think I've lived in one place that long ever in my life. This is some amazing engineering, considering everything I own breaks after about 5 years.
- tokai 6y ago>considering everything I own breaks after about 5 years. Brilliant people are working hard to make that happen.
- jrockway 6y agoWhat kind of stuff do you guys have that breaks? Sometimes I wish my stuff broke so I could upgrade it guilt-free, but it just doesn't happen. I have to find some unwilling victim to donate it to so it doesn't end up in a landfill. The only thing I own that's broken in recent memory is this duvet cover I bought in 2008 that I've used every night since then... it developed some big holes after 13 years and I threw it away. None of my tools, computer parts, furniture, etc. have broken. I've honestly never even broken a mobile phone, though I have dropped them a couple times. I agree that computers from 10 years ago kind of suck when asked to run modern software. That's not "planned obsolescence", that's more like "software engineers made more complicated stuff more quickly; the downside is that you need a new $300 CPU instead of a decade-old $300 CPU". I'm okay with that.
- lambda_obrien 6y agoI wasn't being too serious, but you're correct, usually things age out for other reasons, like old WiFi access points becoming obsolete or shoes getting worn, and the occasional cheap electronic crap from some startup that outsourced to China's lowest bidder.
- pearjuice 6y agoPlanned obsolescence is also amazing engineering if you think about it.