Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridge compressor autopsy

Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by rowanG077 on Monday August 15, 2022 @04:00AM (#32466965)

According to the poster the components their brother designs are often more expensive then the standard ones. Precisely because it takes a higher tolerance to fail between a tight time window. So it is in fact the opposite of resources are finite. They are spending more to squeeze the consumer.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by jtbayly on Monday August 15, 2022 @12:08PM (#32471460)

But!… we don’t have any evidence yet. Just a claim. I’d love to see some evidence.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by rowanG077 on Monday August 15, 2022 @12:17PM (#32471591)

If someone is telling you something, which you have no way to verify, it's obscene to cherry pick a piece of information to believe, use that to make your point and then call out the other piece as an unverified claim because it would completely destroy the point.

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by CamperBob2 on Monday August 15, 2022 @01:50PM (#32472939)

The notion of a battery tied to a GPIO pin in an HVAC thermostat amounts to an extraordinary claim. Unless we're talking about a smoke detector or other safety-critical item that actually has an expiration date (in which case I'd think they would use a real chemical timer), there are no obvious explanations for the battery other than planned obsolescence.

So, yeah, I'd like to see a model number as well.

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