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It's one of the problems created by allowing billionaire technofeudal overlords to do whatever they want. They believe they are entitled to anything and everything, and so everything they make turns to shit to fool you into maintaining it and rebuying it faster and faster.


Planned obsolescence is as old as the light bulb.


That's a given. It is, but it's not a binary on/off. It's a sliding continuum of enshitification and the current trend is to rapidly increasing towards worse. It rarely/never goes back the other way.




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