Every waking day of every waking use of the devices I have, I find myself constantly fighting a lot with the shitty input and recognition of said input. Things I swore I clicked once but having to click twice or sometimes three times. Such lag input between the last time I clicked and to the time the function of whatever I had to click fucking functioned.

With phones it is obviously worse, with finger input being either too sensitive or too dulled to register, inquiring more touches just to get somewhere or to type something, along with the separated frustrations aside trying to type on awful keyboard interfaces.

  • NutinButNet@hilariouschaos.com
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    11 hours ago

    This is nothing new, except “relatively new” in the last 100 years. Check out the Phoebus Cartel. It’s a crazy story about light bulb manufacturers getting together to agree to make light bulbs last less so they will guarantee repeat customers.

    It’s why I always laugh when Sylvania shows an ad about their “long lasting bulbs”.

    You’d be crazy to not think the other industries haven’t been doing this too.

    • piskertariot@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      We were taught about permanent lightbulbs and hosiery that wouldn’t run in the 1980s

      Then they renamed it to "planned obselence*