KillingTimeItself @ KillingTimeItself @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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I mean I do agree with you. Planned obsolescence and whatnot is very real.

it's complicated, a good example, actually probably the ideal example, of planned obsolescence is airpods. Designed to not be repaired, thrown away, and then replaced.

It can also apply to things like "lifetime" designed products, you may design something to mechanically wear out, before it needs to be maintained, or perhaps, require no maintenance, until you need to replace it. It's harder to say whether this is strictly planned obsolescence, or just cost cutting engineering, which in the long run, probably doesn't change much.

i think the most semantically accurate version of this would be releasing a product that is 100% good, and then a year later releasing a product that is 200% good, surpassing and replacing the previous product entirely, removing the previous product from the product line up, and only supporting the most recent product. I.E. it's planned to become obsolete, shortly into the future.

Vehicles are also a weird market segment, they've gotten considerably more reliable since the early days of the automotive industry, they've gotten significantly more comfortable, they've gotten significantly more safe. They've also gotten several orders of magnitude more complicated since than as well. To deal with the aforementioned advances. Though there have been a lot of issues in recent manufacturing leading to parts that are just, bad.

The Xbox 360 was designed to be as annoying to take apart as possible, possibly to hide the cheap components that lead to the red ring of death…

actually, this was probably to fit it into the very weird and particular form factor that microsoft wanted it to fit in.

The red ring of death issue was actually due to faulty chip manufacturing, rather than bad cooling, it was an inevitable flaw due to manufacturing defects, rather than design failures. The heating and cooling cycles just greatly exaggerated the effect of the problem, that's why it's so closely linked.

Also you could've mentioned the update fuses in the CPU, IIRC there are fuses that are blown when the system updates, to prevent you from going back, no matter what you do.

honestly, im at a point where i've become anti-humanist.

The political satire is strong this year, and it shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon.

Perhaps the world will crash and burn, who knows, exciting times we live in!

wasn't most of the fossil fuel increase under the obama admin an increase in natural gas? Rather than oil/coal, in order to replace, said infrastructure, as it's cleaner.

call me when you get inside the whitehouse grounds.

if some industrial plant uses a diesel engine, and replaces it with a diesel engine that uses less diesel to achieve the same outcome, does that not reduce the overall consumption?

strictly speaking, generally, yes it would. However for the sake of the argument, including this kind of detail is.

Not important.

we're blaming people for things now???

so you mean all the oil production that trump created, that biden kept relatively linear wasn't good enough?

You want the dems to reverse everything the republicans do, and more? Good luck with a political campaign.

you and me both my friend, you and me both.

People, throughout all of the cool things they have done throughout history, are also the single stupidest organism to ever fucking exist and i cannot express my rage over how stupid people can be without being banned.

So, please, random lemmy users reading this, reactionary engagement is bad, use critical thinking, and don't use quippy retorts. They don't actually do anything.

People just want to watch the world burn, and so do i, not because i think my version of the world is better, but because it brings me enjoyment when i get to see people suffer the results of their choices. I will do nothing to stop you, and laugh all the way down. The world is in your hands my friend, choose wisely.

I hope this medal makes up for 2024 being the year of highest oil production in US history.

i'm actually curious to know how it compares to global production. With the war in ukraine and what not, kicked a HUGE export market right off a cliff.

im guessing OSHA probably has a few also. Most definitely some health agency, though i wouldn't be surprised if the FDA did have something pertaining to carbon monoxide, more generically. They have a lot of weird ones.

it's very close to turning into one.

It's not quite there, but trump is definitely not one to shy away from it, so it mostly depends on who he appoints and interacts with. And how corrupt he will be.

that's what all my turbo nerd star wars fan friends were saying about it when it released.

I trust their judgement on media a lot more than mine, because they actually consume it, unlike me.

edit: apparently it has 3 seasons.

You can’t say that “they just didn’t think hard enough about it”, just because they arrived at different conclusions.

to be clear, that's not explicitly what im saying, i'm just proposing that if you were to think hard enough about anything for long enough, it devolves until it cannot devolve anymore. There is some level of arbitrary basis that needs to be defined in order to make a clear comprehensible statement on something. Where that level is just depends on where you stop.

That’s one of the neat things about philosophy: There is no absolutely true framework or theory. It’s all just different ways of looking at things.

it's definitely one of the most interesting aspects of it as a field. Much like neuroscience, which we still don't really understand, the only difference is that it doesn't really have a direct implication in our daily lives lmao. It's mostly just people with way too much free time thinking about things they probably don't need to spend time thinking about.

this is definitely a good point.

restricted or incomplete combustion has really negative side effects. Notably, more pollution.

im gonna hazard a little guess, and say they don't define this, because this would be like the FDA having recommended estimates for how many hurricanes you can consume within approximately a year, as that would be a rather silly statistic. They probably don't do that one.

Little known fun fact, the FDA is actually short hand for "food and drug administration" if you're concerned about like, global warming you should ask someone else like NASA. Which handles things related to the atmosphere. There would also be NOAA, which more directly handles the atmosphere, that's kind of it's job, you should probably ask them.

You don’t know what’s going on & yet make such confident remarks

yeah, that's why i asked why we hated disney lmao, is my comment really that hard to comprehend?

im gonna hazard a really basic proposition.

The volume of the earths atmosphere is perhaps, just a little bit bigger than the volume of approximately 1 billion garages.

If you're going to shitpost about science, at least be accurate about it. Nobody thinks they "aren't bad" that's literally a fallacious argument to even propose. Sure, toxic chemicals are bad for you, but there are FDA defined limits for how much of them is considered to be safe on an annual basis.

also, "banning" larger heavier vehicles is based.

thats not even really a biden problem, this is a well established feature of trump existing.

Literally nobody can ever shut the fuck up about him ever, for a second.

i have historically had more stability issues on windows, than on my bleeding edge archlinux workstation. Sure shit changes, sometimes things break, but i can fix them, or find alternatives/workarounds if i really need to.

Windows, uh. Good luck.