What opinion just makes you look like you aged 30 years

      • Mr_Grumpy@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        1 year ago

        Many of the younger generations seem to accept that things don’t last/break easily. I come from a time where there was a wiring diagram for the TV pasted on the inside back cover. Washing machines and other devices often had the schematics included. Repairing your stuff and keeping it running was the norm back then. Even if you couldn’t, you probably had a neighbour who could. Planned obsolescence is a relatively new thing.

        • plactagonic@beehaw.org
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          1 year ago

          Planned obsolescence was first introduced for lightbulb, according to Veritasium video on YT. But for most things it is relatively new thing (20 years).

      • emerty@slrpnk.net
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        1 year ago

        Things used to be made like this. Only boomers are old enough to remember buying an iron for life.

      • Matt@netmonkey.tech
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        1 year ago

        They say it a lot, in that things made in the past were made better than things today.

    • pumpsnabben@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      You can still buy things with very long lifetime but they are very expensive, the results of making cheaper things that break earlier is that more people can afford to buy them.

      This is of course what most companies want but is also makes a lot of products available to people who couldn’t afford them earlier which for many is a good thing.

      I think it’s a fair trade.