of my past 7 phones, 5 of them broke within 2 years through no fault of my own
under socialism all phones will have replaceable batteries and won't fall apart for no reason
any time I get a new phone (regardless of platform) I disable animations and transparency effects and everything else I can, and my phones stay fast and have better battery life. Then I see my friends trying to use their phones and it's like staring into a strange alternate universe where everything just sucks slightly more
Under socialism all phones will look like bricks, and they will last for 10,000 years.
I had a certain line of androids that I liked using but I kept having to replace because the battery kept getting fucked. 2 phones later and I specifically get an older, weaker one specifically for the headphone jack and replaceable battery. For some reason, I've had this phone longer than the last 2 and never had to replace my battery
The one that really fucking gets to me is laptop charger cables. Mine inevitably died yesterday, after a sad life of having to bend 90 degrees to accommodate the ridiculous straight pin that Dell saw fit to give it. Of course the cable is attached to the power supply, so you can't just swap out this cheap and unnecessarily fragile component. And of course they've generic-proofed the laptop so I can only buy a branded replacement.
Fuck that shit. I just melted the plastic off the pin with a heat gun and re-soldered it lower down. The thought of all the expensive power supplies that never needed to be sold, and all the perfectly good ones with busted cables cluttering up drawers in homes and winding up in landfills makes me so angry.
I've been using the same Gamecube controller since 2007 and my Switch Joycons broke in 6 months.
My Gamecube and my four controllers still work like a dream. Tried to play some Smash on Switch with my friends - the drift was redonk. Did Nintendo hire Wildcatz to make those controllers?
Feels like it. I'm using my GameCube controller right now to play Melee, works perfectly.
Apparently the ps4/5, xbox, and switch all use the same brand of joystick that drifts after like 400 hours. My original Xbox One controller must've been before MS switched suppliers though cause it's not had those issues after 5 years of heavy use (there are other minor problems though, like shoulder buttons sticking slightly)
the switch pro controller doesn't have this issue and is my favorite modern controller, but it's a separate $60 purchase that doesn't come with the console so it's still shitty
I'm just glad they work so well with Steam because wired switch pro controllers are the cheapest ones I typically see and some (PDP Faceoff + Fightpad Pro, PowerA) are genuinely really nice feeling aside from the face button layout (which you can remap)
I can’t vouch for any of the third-party ones, just the Nintendo-made wireless pro controllers. Good to know the cheap ones are decent, we’ve come a long way from the Madkatz days of yore.
Funny thing, I used to work in a bakery and all the larger machinery and ovens were like 50 years old. I asked about that once and was told that the newer stuff isnt that much easier to use, breaks down after five years and is like three times more expensive than buying some used half a century old machinery.
Can confirm too, the old workhorse oven just kept on trucking, while the newer ones constantly had issues and were a massive head-ache to fix.
Could be survivorship bias: all the cheap old shit broke down and got scrapped long ago, only the good stuff survives. Like how you never see a 1993 Plymouth Voyager anymore but there's plenty of 1993 Toyota Camrys still on the road.
Companies know that most people will buy their shit over the competitors if it's cheaper so they will work out how long something needs to last to be considered an acceptable performance and weigh that against the savings and so increased profit they can get by making it out of cheaper materials.
Though to be fair the constant added complexity that new machines need to have to justify buying new also gives them more stuff that can break.
Like how you never see a 1993 Plymouth Voyager anymore but there’s plenty of 1993 Toyota Camrys still on the road.
I never see a 1993 Plymouth Voyager, but I'm hard pressed to find a 2003 Toyota Camry, either. Like, don't get me wrong, I loved my 2004 Toyota Camry, but it definitely started to fall apart quick after the 10-year warrantee elapsed. Same with my 1992 Nissan. Sterling car, early on. Hard as a rock. Then it hit 100,000 miles and everything just started to fall apart.
I don't think that was an accident.
All cars are definitely designed to last a certain finite time, but the 2nd generation Chrysler minivan had especially unreliable engines, transmissions, and electrical systems
Old kitchen equipment is amazing. The trouble now is getting parts for them when bits and pieces fuck up. Had a mixed that a wand god stripped. No replacements existed cause it screwed onto a wider post than normal. We solved this by bashing the wand on and off with a paint hammer.
I hate this shit so much. I try and buy vintage stuff as much because it lasts so much longer. I got a patagonia jacket from like the 90s (the non-fleeces arent usually super expensive), shits bullet proof, I've never had a jacket that works this well
Also this one: https://youtu.be/BWJC5ieUAe4
I've shared this video with so many people, and I never understand why we aren't collectively SO PISSED OFF at this? I am!
My iPhone 6S that I pulled out of the recycling pile at work keeps on going. 6 years has been a pretty good run for a phone IMO.
I'm glad it works considering Apple was caught artificially limiting the performance of it to force people to buy newer phones :agony:
Literally bricked my OS 3 when the OS 4 came out and I've never touched Apple again.
Android has its issues, but I've never actually lost the ability to use the phone entirely because of a firmware patch.
The battery on my phone never seems to last more than 3 years, and they're virtually impossible to replace without wrecking the phone itself.
I can get a set of earbuds for like $10 but I can't find any brand at any price that will last longer than 6 months without breaking
I went looking and there's lots of Samsung/AKG co-branded earbuds for $20, and AKG only ones for $50-$1,000. Do you know what model you have?
Half the joke with earbuds. I'm convinced they're a proxy for a subscription plan. Whether I spend $10 or $100, they last about as long and break about as easily. I rarely make it more than six months before needing to re-up.
The Economy: "Do a consumerism. I need it to survive."
Me: "But everything I consume is designed as disposable. It degrades too quickly for me to obtain adequate value."
The Economy: "Please. Stop. You're killing me."
Me: "I'm sorry, but I'm just going to do crafts instead."
The Economy: "Noooooooooo!"
I think France around 2015 or so. If I recall correctly you have to disclose the estimated life span of the product too so people can make an educated guess
