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They don't build them like they used to (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Survivorship bias

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Not saying that planned obsolescence isn't a thing, but yeah the remaining appliances from decades ago are not completely representative of how reliable they were when new.