Planned obsolescence should be illegal

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18 Comments

disagree, they still make those parts, but they weren't designed to be replaceable.

Avicenna@programming.dev · 31 pts · 109d (3 replies)

bruv, have you got a permit for this spinal hernia?

dis_da_mor@anarchist.nexus · 12 pts · 109d (2 replies)

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Avicenna@programming.dev · 7 pts · 109d (1 reply)

ye need a loicence from 'er majesty fer that bruv

I got it from the queen of Sheba I did

Zwiebel@feddit.org · 11 pts · 109d

They don't sell the parts individually and it's illegal to buy the whole thing and take it apart for spares I've found out

Maybe yours weren't, cephalopode

Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 46 pts · 109d (5 replies)

I have a right to repair petition that I plan to give to the original designer that I would like everyone to sign.

gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 109d (4 replies)

Gaia I've come to bargain [ODs on pain killer]

Elilol@fedinsfw.app · 9 pts · 109d (2 replies)

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P1k1e@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 108d (1 reply)

At least you can get a spare on the Rim

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"Do it or you keep getting it"

Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 109d (2 replies)

What about unplanned obsolescence? Like the only engineer that knew how it worked up and left.

jaybone@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 109d

And never documented anything.

Godspeed asshole.

Some still claim he's gonna come back at some point to fix everything that got broken, but no one's verifiably seen him in thousands of years.

Xenny@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 109d (2 replies)

This is the plot of Robots(2005)

I had the same thought

Get up ofa that thing!

screams in slipped disc

(chipper old guy) “Guess I’ll die then!”

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