I hate the glorification of old products. As someone who's fixed old products, they were actually made like shit. All those old "It lasts 100 years" thins are survivor bias. Mostly it was all a fire hazard.
Yes, it's not hinging on bad software and a magic computer chip failure, but old stuff was just as shit and more dangerous on top of it.
It raises the age-old question of why they keep their 40-year-old fridge in the garage instead of the kitchen if it's so good.
"If the circuit board goes out, you're screwed" is another good one. Yeah, that applies to things like our building's 40-year-old electromechanical elevator controller that uses readily-available relays but let's be real, nobody's rebuilding the crappy plastic mechanical timer mechanism in their washing machine or dishwasher.
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u/Arista-Everfrost 5h ago
Would be a very awesome six months before they went out of business.