The whole concept of not knowing what you’ve got until it’s gone. Remember that song you used to hate hearing and now 20 some years later, you’d wish we’d be back to music like it because music today is too artificial and AI-powered? Remember nearly a lot of things you criticized and now have a soft spot for because everything now has gone to shit?

Yeah, that hits hard. What sucks is that sometimes, you don’t know for certain if you’re experiencing the best of things. But once it passes you, give it 1 - 5 years, you’ll know it.

  • over_clox@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    And that’s half of how we ended up in the era of enshittification.

    Let’s say one of the control knobs on your 15 year old dumb stove fails, shorted out, where as soon as you turn it to low heat the eye is blazing hot at full heat. Do you?..

    • A. Just not use that eye anymore
    • B. Buy a new control knob and get another 10 years out of it
    • C. Buy a whole new stove, that may last 5 years, and wants you to connect to the internet so they can eventually brick the firmware

    We went with option B, way cheaper than a new stove, plus none of the headaches of modern digital technology. Like, why do appliances need modern digital technology? A stove heats food, plain and simple, and that’s all it needs to do.

    And look at these new refrigerators coming out, that fail within weeks to months, maybe at best a couple or few years. When your grandma’s old fridge was passed down from her mom and has been kicking strong for 50 years, save for that new door seal installed like 15 years ago…

    Sigh, we live in a disposable dystopia anymore ☹️

    • AskewLord@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      You aren’t painting the full picture. The new stove is probably more efficient, cleaner, etc. Modern digital tech makes them better at these things. I have a 20 year old purely analog stove. It sucks balls. But I’m too cheap to justify buying an new one until it breaks. That’s entirely on me though.

      You are also grossly exaggerating things. I have a 4 year old washer, it came with a 10 year warranty. it broke twice already but both times it was covered under warranty at no cost to me. It was electronic failures. It’s super efficient and I love it. Granted if I bought a cheapo one that was $300, it probably wouldn’t have such a good warranty.

      There are lots of choices. Nobody is forcing you to buy fridges that break. And plenty of companies do consumer testing for you such that you can buy a reliable model.

      What you have is nostalgia. I had computers in the 90s too… they broke all the fucking time. I barely got 1 year old of a HDD back then. So yeah you had to repair them. Modern SSDs last much longer because they have no moving mechanical parts, on time of being blazingly faster.

      Shitty stuff was always shitty. Good stuff is will always be good. There were shitty computer brands and appliance brands 20 years ago