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Hence the washing machine that dies 1 week after the warranty expires. Yay for capitalism!
by hermitcrab 3y ago
Hence the washing machine that dies 1 week after the warranty expires. Yay for capitalism!
- jay_kyburz 3y agoI imagine its quite difficult to get a washing machine to die as close as possible to the end of the warranty, but not before it. Just one week must take some real skill.
- hermitcrab 3y agoPrecision enshittification. You'll soon be able to do a masters degree in it.
- blooalien 3y ago> "Precision enshittification. You'll soon be able to do a masters degree in it." Only until someone trains an "AI" model to do it automatically... ;~)
- brnt 3y agoI suppose manufacturing washing machines that reliably give up the ghost months within warranty expiry is its own kind of impressive.
- hermitcrab 3y agoNot that hard when they have a processor in that knows the date or an Internet connection. I'm not suggesting anyone has done that yet. But only a matter of time, surely?
- Arrath 3y agoGreat, I can't wait for appliances that stuxnet themselves shortly after their warranty period. New home automation hack: have your pi-hole pull double duty by running a local, pirate NTP server that forever makes the appliances think they're only a year old.
- RecycledEle 3y agoGE washing machines did exactly that.
- hermitcrab 3y agohave you got a link for that?