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by huiiuiujiojio 4y ago
Could you expound on this point? I don't think there is any appliance that is made only of metal that has planned obsolescence. For example a cheese greater I would expect to last forever as long as you don't buy a really cheap on
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by huiiuiujiojio 4y ago
I may be living in the past in this aspect. I admit my statement earlier that only plastic being printed reasonably may be wrong. I don't know what SLS is, but I briefly looked it up and it looks like the cheapest ones are more than $5
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by huiiuiujiojio 4y ago
>Handmade does not mean "hacked together". Airplanes are handmade. My dinner is handmade. In my view you are defining two types of handmade here. Dinner can be handmade of course, but from an evolutionary perspective this is ne
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by huiiuiujiojio 4y ago
>People don't write their own open source. Expertise and economies of scale are a thing. True, people don't write their open source, but what distinguishes open code from open blueprints is that in software the plan, ie. the s
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by huiiuiujiojio 4y ago
Of course having the plans is great. I wish all information was free. My point is that planned obsolescence, assuming it exists (which I do) can only be solved by the manufacturer. Even if we make an open source blueprint for a given applia
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by huiiuiujiojio 4y ago
I was going to make a note in my first post about 3d printing but I forgot. In my opinion 3d printing cannot be a solution until metal 3d printing is cheap. For the blender example, do you really want to use a handmade blender consisting of
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by huiiuiujiojio 4y ago
Could you expound on this? In my mind there must ultimately be a manufacturer of a given product. Even if there was a completely open source blender, for example, manufacturers would be incentivized to make it in such a way that it still br