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Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by grogenaut on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:40AM (#17757757)
Most fridges are repairable modulo buying one with a complex motherboard. Even then they're still fixable just spendy to do so. Also most aren't complex enough that you couldn't just reverse engineer the Mobo easily. People do this for cars and computers.
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Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by Qwertie on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @09:10PM (#17763151)
They could be much cheaper to repair if they used standard parts so repair places didn't have to order in custom pieces that they only use about 1 per year because every fridge has it's own version.
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Re:Americans Own Less Stuff, and That’s Reason to Be Nervous by grogenaut on Tuesday August 14, 2018 @10:03PM (#17763293)
They might be more expensive to build, esp since customers may be more interested in having a tablet in their fridge than a repairable fridge.
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