We are talking about 5-7 year cycles. My last 2 laptops failed in less than 3 years beyond warranty and repairability. A socketed CPU can easily last 5 years today.

Eh, you can't make a truly modular product with long life in a quick innovation industry.

Take electronics for example. Your modules need some standardised bus protocol to communicate with each other. This is the base of any modular product. The problem is that those protocols are developing also. So any fixed modular architecture will drag your product behind non-modular competitors. Take storage for example. Phones evolved from parallel NAND flash to embedded MMC to UFS. Imagine that your modular product will always be limited to speeds and storage capability that were available 20 years ago.

And most importantly with a user feedback loop based on longevity :)

Where can I read more about this? I’ve had exactly one coffee machine fail on me, due to a crack in the tubing causing a leak (and I was able to fix it). I drink at least a pot a day, so if I was going to hit one of those counters I definitely would have done so by now.

I would definitely buy an electric car like that. Generational car that has easy to replace batteries, motors etc. Software upgrades or just make the computer system replaceable

NFTs don't have to be overpriced pump-and-dump garbage, and Proof of Stake blockchains are very power efficient. They don't have to be a bad thing.

I mean, we're saying this on a site that has integrated NFTs, lmao. Sure, a lot of the site ignores it, and that's fine (I don't think it needs to be a feature for everyone), but you can find NFT pfps participating uncontroversially in most subreddits on here these days.

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Many coffee machines have a built in counter that shuts them down after a set numbers of coffees. Officially it is for quality reasons but you can easily get twice as many coffees out of a machine withoput a drop in quality. You can reset the counters if you know how, it's not that hard. Especially cheap full coffee machines do this so people have to constantly buy new ones every few years.

Coffee machines have a built in counter that turns them off after a set numbers of coffees. Officially it is for quality reasons but you can easily get twice as many coffees out of a machine withoput a drop in quality. You can reset the counters if you know how, it's not that hard.

Jet cargo planes are more complex. As long as you are building a lot of them, Starship could be cheaper.

Trees have done enough for us. It's time to let them be

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> versus flat screen television built at the height of human technological development, lasts 5.

I wish it lasted 5 years, since then I would have a reason to replace it, but we know that is not really the case, is it. Flat screen TVs last ages.

My grandmother's floor model television lasting 45 years, versus flat screen television built at the height of human technological development, lasts 5.

We should be grateful to the right to repair lobby. Their message is getting through to legislators around the world.

Next month is an orbital flight test, so then we'll see

It's always been about going to Mars. Going to Mars and putting military things in space are a lot like eachother, so might as well make some cash on the side

I’m already overwhelmed with “choices” to be selected from a menu written by marketing professionals and legal. Minefield.

It's not that advanced tech. It's the launch that has cost money and now it's nothing but waste

The average profit margin of oil and gas companies over time is 4.7%, so taking 3% isn’t a workable solution.

>Very mixed feelings about subscription model to get long term durability. Kind of like buying an extended warranty (full of fine print weasel words).

Rather a user feedback loop. Each time you can decide to scrap the deal or not. Unlike now where we have no feedback loop to incentivize producers.

Oh, yeah, with exception that he can enlarge some of his body parts...

>unless it’s physical damage

Technology products come to mind immediately. Products are becoming more and more deeply integrated with less serviceability. Phones are obvious, but more insidious are things like soldered on storage and ram in computers, the inability to replace failed storage in game consoles, known defective designs not being addressed, or taking a long time to be addressed (joycon drift, butterfly switches).

There's also software related things, like not being able to get the software or firmware to program a replacement part, even if you have access to it. Putting modules in parts that don't require them, just to flag them as "unauthorized repairs" (ask a farmer about John Deere) that are all put in place to use the digital millennium copyright act to circumvent the magnuson moss warranty act.

Even little things, like integrating the controllers for HVAC and lighting relays into the radio of a car, so that replacing it is more difficult or impossible stand out.

You also end up with fashion companies in the mix too, wanting these same laws to cover knock-offs of their products.

You also see this in the latest wave of appliances as well. A lot of proprietary parts, that do the same job as a generic part that has been standard in machines from the 60's to the mid 2000's. The lifespan of a refrigerator has shortened drastically as well.

I wouldn't say it's a conspiracy, so much as a mass market move. A device that has a long lifespan and is serviceable isn't profitable like a new machine, so make the machines less durable. As old machines are phased out for machines that are drastically better in efficiency and other metrics, those new machines won't last as long.

Blue was founded with colonies in mind from day 1. I suspect they'll have two equally large divisions for launch services and colonies