• booly@sh.itjust.works
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      2 days ago

      Plenty of short-lived stuff back then, too. Survivorship bias means that all the stuff that happened to survive to today is not necessarily representative of the typical thing that was manufactured back then.

    • Robbity@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      Well yes it’s ridiculous we have (in EU) a mandatory warranty of only 2 years on anything electronic.

      Phones should be 5 years. Appliances should be 10 and cars 15 or 200k kilometers. How have we normalized the fact that it’s okay for a car to break down after two years and the manufacturer is not on the hook ?