Oddbean new post about login | logout I like how Nintendo systems from the 1990s could be put in a shed without air conditioning and survive for five years and still play games. Simple, optimized, robust engineering. I like how cars from more than ten years ago just work, rather than being a nanny to you while you drive. Cars, TVs, and all sorts of devices just whine today about problems. We’ve gone backward in some sense. I’m willing to support brands that make more physical stuff. Already doing that with my next car choice.
www.carcomplaints.com old school website that has great charts comparing make/model across all years it was produced. you can find the best model years that way. bought a 10 year old car based on this information in 2019, still rocking 5 years later
And don’t get me started on Windows wanting you to create a Microsoft account to start up a new laptop. Every step of the working day you are sent prompts to create an account. Default document saving location is Microsoft Onedrive, and it seems impossible to change the setting. I’ve paid for the laptop, and your OS license already, why do I need an account? What happened to free software being a hassle while paid software is awesome? I’ve used Windows laptops since the early 2000’s, and it’s getting worse in leaps and bounds.
Consider ditching for Linux. Unless work mates require collaboration on teams or excel etc, adapting to the switch is easy
MS is nothing more than a keylogger spyware malware system of control. You shall own nothing and be happy. Flash Ubuntu OS onto it. You're still stuck with the firmware backdoors but it's better than nothing.
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Someone posted a while ago about how, with current regulations, Americans aren’t allowed to have basic small trucks. I’d trade my current beater in for a new small truck with nothing but a radio and a working tailgate. Old school carburetor and no computer.
I recently bought a low mileage 4 wheel drive mini SUV from the mid 90s. So far it's been very easy to work on, and it runs better than the newer vehicles I have
Ure getting a mazda?!
Toyota
I'm looking at EMP proof trucks from the 60's and 70's. Minimal electronics, strong motors, easy to work on, real steel everything, and they just look badass. And most are less than 20k.
Toyota break , no suv. Friends told me it just works, it does . I like it . There’s some gadgets though.
Unless something really changes, I don't plan on buying any cars newer than about 2000s-2010 again.
I wonder which car that would be?
Tell us about your car research. As little nannying, bing-bing-bing, electronics as possible please
I use my grandma's washing machine from the 1980s. My daughter makes music on my Roland D50 synthesizer from the late 1980s. I sit on a wooden chair with the year 1921 written under it, in a wooden house from the 18th century. I don't romanticize the past, but something is broken in the current incentive structures. The way forward is not to recycle and use less end cheaper materials, but to build something of lasting quality that can persevere for generations.
What is your next car choice?
probably a Tesla
🤣 Hopefully that one and German engineering: https://www.mbusa.com/en/vehicles/class/g-class/suv
"I like how cars from more than ten years ago just work, rather than being a nanny to you while you drive." that's one reason why I bought an older car instead of a newer one for the first time in my life "Hacking" the software of cars will become even more important in the future
c0mplexity is directly pr0porti0nal 2 entr0py. Add A.eye 2 the EV car$ like te$la & other gadget$ in the equati0n. c0n$equence of 0uts0urcing intel & trust 2 machine$ wit n0 Understanding will be a di$a$ter in the making, ticking b0mb. pls learn from the past n0t 2 make similar mistakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZjmZFDx-pA
Buying a retail display instead of a "smart TV" was a really good choice for me. It literally just turns on and does nothing until I hook a device up to it. Just a screen, which is all I really want. No garbage software that doesn't get updates. No spying. Just a display. It's quite beautiful.
I've even went back to buying DVDs and physical books. There's something wonderful about not needing permission to watch things I paid for. And not a person in the world knows I'm doing it. No WiFi, no BS licenses that just disappear stuff on a whim. I'm completely cut off and at peace with my bare bones display and DVDs.
I think it’s because software engineers are shittier than their hardware counterparts of yesterday. And many of the problems we see are to do with software or the sw/hw interfacing. Despite the significantly easier ability to test software than hardware. Although I think hardware might be a more deterministic in terms of possible states to consider and test for whole software has states of the application as well as hardware and the effects of other concurrent applications. But definitely your observation could be due to this migration to a thicker software layer (multiple layers, in fact)
heard on the street: "I need to go to the mechanic, car needs and update. I'm driving a goddamn computer!" nostr:note1v86r2dc7w5upaesd095xygfmtmee0uqc0fdnzzkxqjadslupmt2q3n85e6
planned obsolescence
welcome to the nag economy
Instapot went out of business because their quality was too high, no one reordered
I want to say this is false. I think it was poor management.
The fact that Instant Pot is already being framed as a corporate cautionary tale—the company that went bankrupt bc they made a product so durable & versatile that its customers had little need to buy another one—instead of as a critique of capitalism is deeply, deeply depressing. https://x.com/robertmoor_/status/1679238393828610049 https://m.primal.net/JLbM.jpg
Cars in the EU are worse, they are made to whine. Only one example, note the antonymous naming: https://m.primal.net/JLbG.png
Holy hell.
This is what I keep warning normies about
I have the same feeling. Even though I love tech, I'm starting to appreciate analog stuff more and more. I write on paper now, I picked up some old canon vintage lenses for my DSLR Camera as examples. I can appreciate all the AI advances and automation for tools when it comes to getting things done. But with all the advancements I can't help to feel it feels a bit hollow. There's a beauty in taking your time for some things. There's value in tactile feel for things. Photography, art/design, even engineering. Even consuming art and entertainment. I appreciate having everything available on streaming. BUT, I do really miss album cover art, the small booklets that came with CD's. And I still read all my books 99% physical. Maybe this wasn't your point, but I can definitely relate.
Planned obsolescence. A result of the fiat world.
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That’s what I love older cars. They do what they are supposed to do without them harassing every five seconds to slow down, wear your seatbelt etc…
Simplicity is a feature we often forget about. Sometimes it's even considered a bug! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle 🫂
"planned obsolescence is not a cause of anything"..it is consequence of inflation...what is instapot? In every way, if they went bankrupt, it was not because their good quality, but maybe they got wrong precification, wrong marketing, and had to compete with all the bad stimolous and consequences from fiat world.
"planned obsolescence is not a cause of anything"..it is consequence of inflation...what is instapot? In every way, if they went bankrupt, it was not because their good quality, but maybe they got wrong precification, wrong marketing, and had to compete with all the bad stimolous and consequences from fiat world.
