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Today's anger and frustration are brought to you by our Whirlpool microwave, felled by an incredibly stupid design resulting in a handful of broken retaining tabs, two broken screw mounts, and a wobbly door that's causing the control panel to flake out. Replacement door: $309. New microwave: $329. I will never buy another Whirlpool appliance. #DefectiveByDesign

A hand holding an assortment of small plastic bits that broke off the door of our microwave.

The lower portion of the outer door assembly from our microwave. There's a glass window at the top, and most of the photo is taken up by the panel's structural frame. It's a single, large piece of molded, black plastic, with a narrow channel at the very bottom. At approximately one quarter and three quarters of the photo's width, there are two bits of plastic that are dimly visible at the bottom of the channel, where the retaining clips from the previous photo broke off. The plastic was clearly too thin and brittle for the amount of stress the door goes through when it's opened.

@neotoy List of related #TEch #vocabulary

Artificial demand – Creation of economic demand by deliberately influencing consumers

#ArtificialDemand

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_demand

Dark pattern – Deceptive user interface designs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern

#DarkPattern

Design Life – Time the creator plans a product to last

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_life

#DesignLife

Defective by Design – Anti-DRM initiative
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defective_by_Design

#DefectivebyDesign

@neotoy The #commercial world also *knows this* as #ink makers and #printer #manufacturers to #lure people or find ways to reduce #longevity of #machines #selling #cheap directly or indirectly - it's rather a planned and increasingly "clever" by design "eco-system"...

#Artificialdemand
#DefectivebyDesign
#DarkPattern
#DesignLife
#DefectivebyDesign
#EchoChamber
#Enshittification
#Freemium
#PlannedObsolescence
#RightToRepair – Legal right and movement
#SoftwareBloat

New Super Mario Bros DS (2006) DRM (Digital Restrictive Measures) "feature"

Source: https://archive.org/details/youtube-hekyRinkQC0

#nintendrm #nintendo #drm #ds #nintendods #games #videogames #copyingisnottheft #gif #childhoodruined #defectivebydesign

Flashback to this blog post from former campaigns intern Leonardo Vignini intern which details the history of #DRM: where did Digital Restrictions Management start, how did it get this bad, and what can we do about it? https://u.fsf.org/34g #DefectiveByDesign #EndDRM

"But think about the artists!" is a favorite refrain of so-called "intellectual property" enthusiasts (aka corporations.) Hear from one #DefectiveByDesign (DBD) guest writer and musician about how #DRM totally cramped his style: https://u.fsf.org/1rx #EndDRM #Music

Denuvo m’a fait faire des économies.
Simplement en me faisant pas acheter les jeux protégés par cette merde qui me considère comme étant un pirate parce que j’ai eu le malheur de lancer la démo d’un jeu (Stellar Blade) dans le train, sans connexion Internet. Denuvo qui m’a affiché un code d’erreur exigeant que ce jeu solo hors-ligne se connecte à Internet pour certifier que c’est une version légitime du jeu.

Le jeu. Solo. Doit se connecter à Internet. Pour prouver. Version légitime.

Ya pas un problème dans ce raisonnement ?

#DRM #Denuvo #DefectiveByDesign

Flashback to this blog post from former campaigns intern Leonardo Vignini intern which details the history of #DRM: where did Digital Restrictions Management start, how did it get this bad, and what can we do about it? https://u.fsf.org/34g #DefectiveByDesign #EndDRM

Is there a good way of stripping DRM from kindle ebooks these days, without actually owning a kindle device ? Ive been a bit confused on the state of kindle DRM ever since they killed downloads and the kindle for PC app; and im not a regular of the amazon ecosystem these days.

I keep staring at a few kindle exclusives, and im kinda tempted, if I can find a way to decrypt them. #ebooks #drm #ebook #ereader #kindle #amazon #DefectiveByDesign

EDIT: Thanks for the boosts, I seem to have gotten the current terrible news here: https://mastodon.social/@AKK666/115923850408526370

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iFixit/115881176706138985

When repairing and re-using things becomes illegal:

Dear users/customers of such tech:
**this is unsustainable**

+ causes burnout and depression of anyone still wanting to make sense in this world.

#ArtificialRestrictions #burnout #DefectiveByDesign

"But think about the artists!" is a favorite refrain of so-called "intellectual property" enthusiasts (aka corporations.) Hear from one #DefectiveByDesign (DBD) guest writer and musician about how #DRM totally cramped his style: https://u.fsf.org/1rx #EndDRM #Music

#Retail #Walmart #DayInTheLife
#DefectiveByDesign

I queried Claude.ai to help out a customer with disconnection problems using a Samsung 65 inch TV.
This turns out to be Defective By Design.

😡😡

Based on my search, yes, Samsung TVs do have a known issue with Bluetooth pairing when powered off:
The Disconnection Problem
When Samsung TVs turn off, Bluetooth devices disconnect and won't reconnect automatically unless you pair them again each time (Best Buy) . This is unfortunately by design

"But think about the artists!" is a favorite refrain of so-called "intellectual property" enthusiasts (aka corporations.) Hear from one #DefectiveByDesign (DBD) guest writer and musician about how #DRM totally cramped his style: https://u.fsf.org/1rx #EndDRM #Music

@thibaultamartin @cas Hm, interesting, so you're saying #aosp is so complicated it has effectively become non-free software since it can't practically be modified and shared without a major corporation or state to support it? Do you think that's a #defectivebydesign thing? Or will #postmarketos eventually face the same issues once it grows large enough and has as many features and users?

Flashback to this blog post from former campaigns intern Leonardo Vignini intern which details the history of #DRM: where did Digital Restrictions Management start, how did it get this bad, and what can we do about it? https://u.fsf.org/34g #DefectiveByDesign #EndDRM

"But think about the artists!" is a favorite refrain of so-called "intellectual property" enthusiasts (aka corporations.) Hear from one #DefectiveByDesign (DBD) guest writer and musician about how #DRM totally cramped his style: https://u.fsf.org/1rx #EndDRM #Music

Flashback to this blog post from former campaigns intern Leonardo Vignini intern which details the history of #DRM: where did Digital Restrictions Management start, how did it get this bad, and what can we do about it? https://u.fsf.org/34g #DefectiveByDesign #EndDRM

#DefectiveByDesign

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