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@village604@adultswim.fan on adultswim.fan Open parent

Another issue is we've been trained to treat major appliances as disposable. Back in the day you called a repairman. For example, my mom's washer stopped doing the spin cycle. She immediately hopped on Consumer Reports to shop for a new one. I hopped on an appliance parts website and ordered her a new lid switch for $15. One YouTube video later and her washer worked like new.

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@Damage@slrpnk.net on slrpnk.net Open parent

My fridge stopped working correctly, only the freezer part would actually cool. I called the local service company. Tech came when I wasn’t home, told my partner “compressor’s broken, though shit” , took 60€ and left. My combination washer dryer has stopped drying. From what I gather it seems like a compressor gas leak, guess what? Too expensive to fix, so I would have to throw away several tens of kilos of machine just because of a fart’s worth of gas. I have a Neato robot vacuum which I’ve kept clean and repaired for years, only for fucking Vorwerk, may they go bankrupt tomorrow, to shut down its servers, so now it’s dumb as a rock and next to useless. It’s not your mother’s fault for assuming a malfunctioning appliance must be replaced.

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to shut down its servers, so now it’s dumb as a rock and next to useless. I hate this so much. There’s no reason a robot vacuum should require internet access to function. Companies only do it for tighter control of their products, to track your usage, to have the ability to paywall features, and to have the ability to disable it so you have to buy a new one.

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