• dukatos@lemmy.zip
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    2 months ago

    That is a scam. It is easy to program the board to stop working after x seconds. Samsung did that with my washing machine - the control board died couple of months after the warranty expired.

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      2 months ago

      Planned obsolescence or engineered obsolescence if you prefer.

      It’s like light bulbs. They had a cartel form that drove DOWN the hours of use so that they would expire after only about 1000 hours of use instead of multiple times longer that some bulbs were getting.

      Afaik it’s one of the earliest big scams for that