• deft@lemmy.wtf
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    9 hours ago

    Parents had a fridge from the 70s that lived until 2006. Gone through 6 fridges since

    What the fuck is going on

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      5 hours ago

      our parents but a new LG one recently, and there has been complaints in the reviews that it keeps defrosting or its not cold enough or it dies down the line.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s planned obsolesence. They make more money by marketing high tech/luxury stuff and having it break on purpose in a defined amount of time.

      I got some Carhartt “worker” jeans, advertized as nice jeans for manual laborers.

      I work from home in my home office. The crotch tore in less than 6 months of hard… sitting.

      Expensive shit they want you to buy over and over again because they think you’re an idiot. I learned to sew, learned to darn my nice wool socks that tore predictably in 6 months, repair and maintain my motorcycle, repair my plumbing, because fuck all this enshittification.

      My new MO is to buy your shit once, and either i will say your brand is great or keep wearing my torn/repaired carhartt jeans and keep reminding people never to buy them unless they want to learn how to sew. Fuck these greedy pieces of shit.

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        5 hours ago

        not even planned obselence, make the components so cheaply made, it randomly breaks and you have to buy a new one anyways.