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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by varjag on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @04:29AM (#25744352)
It's a good point, but it's not really a failure of product design. Appliances themselves now are not any less reliable than they were in mid-century. There is no grand conspiracy of manufacturers filing down screw threads to make them fail.

I did not repair any of my fridges (they never failed in all of my adult life), but I did repair my washing machine (AEG 15y.o.) and my beans-to-coffee DeLonghi (10+ y.o). Both were very repairable and it was a matter of identifying the failure and finding the right part on eBay.

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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by stretchcat on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @08:08AM (#25746300)
I don't think manufacturers are conspiring. I think this widespread behavior emerges from market circumstances and is not evidence of any sort of collusion between manufacturers. You don't need grand conspiracies to explain things like this, nor have I proposed one!
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Re:Europe Is Guaranteeing Citizens the Right to Repair by neop1x on Tuesday January 12, 2021 @09:42AM (#25747482)
True, except there are manufacturers like Apple or Sony which won't provide genuine spare parta to retail people (tried that). Then you have to buy parts from "for parts" eBay auctions or counterfait/bad quality batteries from random Chinese seller...
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