“They built them better in the old days, look at this one that survived” whilst ignoring the millions of fridges and washing machines that ended up in landfill and scrap metal yards.
Not quite. The lesser the complexity, the longer the life. Even if both use the same cheap hardware to begin with.
More systems => more areas where it could fail and eventually will.
And don’t forget planned obsolescence. That was no thing back in the days.
Survivorship bias.
“They built them better in the old days, look at this one that survived” whilst ignoring the millions of fridges and washing machines that ended up in landfill and scrap metal yards.
Not quite. The lesser the complexity, the longer the life. Even if both use the same cheap hardware to begin with. More systems => more areas where it could fail and eventually will.
And don’t forget planned obsolescence. That was no thing back in the days.
How did you see my comment? I realised someone else had written the same thing and deleted it
Lol…it’s just there. It still is. At least for me
Weird. So basically deleting a comment does nothing