Yeah, that was my first thought. Wait until OP tries to use that warranty!

Oh I never even thought of that. By connecting to the frame it takes all those nice crash zones out of the equation so they’re not absorbing any of the impact.

Correction: the wealthy will achieve immortality. Us poors will not have it in our lifetime.

For a publicly traded company, the books will eventually tell the tale. But I take your point.

It all comes down to monetizing that AGI. If it worked on internal projects only and did not need to interact with customers, then your example is likely correct. But if the AGI can become the product and they can sell access to it? They’ll be rich.

For me that would be worth getting another car from them lol. Or at least returning there for service.

On the one hand, if the employer offers to pay directly to the school, even by being delinquent then OP’s credit score takes a hit.

On the other hand, if the employer offers to reimburse, and is delinquent (or doesn’t pay), then OP is left holding the bag.

This strikes me as a similar move to England’s 1950’s Royal World Tour that the at-the-time Princess Elizabeth was embarking on. Imperial influence waning, time to do a show and tell with the locals. Pretty tone deaf.

Printers are actually the cartridges themselves having shitty timeouts. The printer itself isn’t prematurely “choosing” to not function, it’s the supplier of the consumable consciously choosing to restrict the life of the consumable. I’d give a half point for planned obsolescence of a consumable because it’s shitty behavior but it’s also a consumable.

Apple getting “busted” was actually an intentional move they were doing to protect the battery life of their devices in the field as they aged. It’s arguable they should have let the consumer decide whether to have their battery drain faster or phone perform worse, but it wasn’t a measure to drive sales of new devices. If anything it probably drove more people to Android (who has an even worse track record for maintaining software on their older devices).

Thank you - that was informative! Seems that no matter the actual explanation; whenever a product doesn’t work perfectly forever, people just jump right to “planned obsolescence.”

In your opinion, if you don’t mind me asking, is security getting any better in relation to IOT? My layman’s understanding was a lot of early IOT was just “set up and abandon” and stuff just went online without getting security patches, or only got patches for a short period of time.

Agreed. Last time I posed this question I got a hundred people telling me about light bulbs but not one single person could cite another example. A lot of folks misunderstand how products are engineered and how much the relentless pursuit of Shareholder Value forces design compromises, but the intent is never to make something fail; simply to last through the warranty period as cheaply as possible.

Is there any documentation anywhere? Can I read an article about it or something?

Where can I read more about this? I’ve had exactly one coffee machine fail on me, due to a crack in the tubing causing a leak (and I was able to fix it). I drink at least a pot a day, so if I was going to hit one of those counters I definitely would have done so by now.

Could you please define planned obsolescence and provide an example other than the light bulbs?

Isn’t the beach great?

Edit - I ask because most of my experiences are more like yours. I can’t wrap my head around how people manage to go and relax or have fun.

Tl;dr: an outage at their destination, JFK, meant the plan turned around and just went back to Auckland.

If I was on a plane for 16 hours and went nowhere, I’d just give up on flying. Goddamn.

On the flip side, every time we expose some type of machine learning to the Internet, it turns into a fascist. Not saying it’s an ML problem, but perhaps we should not be exposing these things to the Internet until we figure out how to keep them from doing this.

I usually forget everything and rise.

Do you mind sharing your flexibility training experience or routine? Should I start by [trying to] touch my toes or what?

Black Mirror had an episode about this

I was thinking more along the lines of pizza sauce, grease, etc.

Yeah… they make keyboard covers that should have been in use here. I remember seeing them at a Pizza Hut cash register as far back as the early 2000’s.

Ok, marketing department for LinkedIn.

And I’m over like “who are all these people that don’t use the top sheet?”

Your experience differs from mine. Out of a dozen items in my latest trip (all consumables/perishables), one of them jumped by about 50% (eggs), the rest jumped by a buck or so, one item actually went down (dish detergent).