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Dr. Fortyseven 🥃 █▓▒░

@fortyseven The things that keep me from buying a new car are the things that are on the new cars that are not on my old car. It's not even that I'm trying to get every last mile out of my car. Which is frugal. And not even the sky-high unreasonable prices of new ones. Or the declining quality. It's active steps taken to make the new thing worse than the old thing.
#enshittification

Rick d Card 2d ago

@Pairko @fortyseven I have always decided if I had enough for a new vehicle I would instead buy a fully restored older vehicle. Much better quality. New vehicles are just electronic gadgetry with so many points of failure that you must trade them in before a cascade of problems. The way they are built you can't buy and replace a part; you must buy the parts surrounding the part because it's one piece. The whole thing is just planned obsolescence. A money machine for the corporation.

@Rick_d_card @Pairko @fortyseven With you on that, an old car retrofitted for electric propulsion.

Rick d Card 1d ago

@Reddog @Pairko @fortyseven There's actually a few places that do that. When I was younger I built a chopper and I've been thinking about building an electric one. All the ones for sale have got you leaning over what would have been a gas tank. An easyriding chopper would be awesome.

Feral Fury 🏴‍☠️ 🏳️‍🌈 🫂🔞2d ago

@Rick_d_card @Pairko @fortyseven

Have you ever noticed that actual car mechanics prefer older, more mechanical cars rather than the electronically doctored cars companies replace them with to exploit you harder? No one's car needs an Internet connection or to be constantly sending data to a "base".

samiamsam 2d ago

holy crap

SaanichGuy 🇨🇦🇨🇦2d ago

@fortyseven expectations them to start attacking these wise individuals as being anti capitalism

Endless cycles of always buying up only profits the rich

Anthony David 2d ago

Did 'Tim Apple' pay for this promo from CNBC?

Flipper 🐬🏳️‍🌈2d ago

@fortyseven won't someone think of the economy!?!

@fortyseven I love how quickly it escalated.

- Someone with a 7 year old phone

disorderlyf 2d ago

@fortyseven Yeah, idk where this is coming from if it isn't just bitching at consumers for not consuming more. I hang out with some significantly more technical people than average both online and offline and what I see regardless of that is the only people who have more devices than absolutely necessary are the few who can afford to. Even then, most of the "hoarding" is hard drives because even the price of that went up and they got sick of losing access to shit they already paid for.

Device hoarding?!

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PS. Looks like this story is from 2025

#AltText4you #AltText

Cavyherd 2d ago

@ahimsa_pdx @fortyseven

...hoarding....

because we are keeping the capitalists from their sweet sweet profits.... 🤦

them#tic 2d ago

@cavyherd @ahimsa_pdx @fortyseven Those who are obsessed with wealth via earth extracted fossil fuels are justifiably concerned that it's going to be obsolete. So it really looks like "AI" stands for "add income".

Morten Juhl-Johansen 2d ago

@ahimsa_pdx @fortyseven It got a bit of attention at the time - it was quite an absurd proposition

thriftwicker 2d ago

@fortyseven Nobody knows hoarding better than fucking soulless money grubbing billionaires.

Drew 🇵🇭 ♾️2d ago

@fortyseven Hey I think I get this...

I'm still married, so I'm wife hoarding, right? And I've had my oldest dog 6 years, so I think I'm pet hoarding.

What a time to be alive.

James Tweedie 2d ago

@drewtowler @fortyseven We've got a table that is 22 years old. It still functions exactly as it did when we got it. It hasn't needed an upgrade, nor does it report back to Google/Microsoft/Anazon/Apple.
It'll outlive me and still be useful.
Hell, it'll even outlive Tim Cook.
I guess that makes us Table hoarders...

billy joe bowers 🗽2d ago

I have never bought a new smart phone, my computers are all many years old, my cars are all very old, my TV is old.

I will probably never buy any of those things new again, probably never buy another car again period.

Some CEOs are about to get a rude awakening. Things are changing (if they don't collapse entirely)

GutterPoetry 2d ago

I'm calling it. The timeline on planned obsolescence will get even shorter.

@fortyseven
It is called reducing the #carbon footprint.

We aint no dogs nor cogs in your consumer-Russian roulette. If you want us to buy more improve our #affordability. Improve standard of living. We ought not to be pulling in 3 jobs just to put dinner on the table while the privileged get more privileges.

charlesmagne1 2d ago

the regime loves stupid propaganda. they look at us no better than rats in a lab…fookers

Corb_The_Lesser 2d ago

@fortyseven Employers who want employees to use new phones on the job to boost "productivity" should pay for those new phones, not leech off their employees.

@fortyseven @mick_collins

That's not what "hoarding" means. If we were collecting multiple devices that we did not use, that would be hoarding.

Cecelia 10h ago

@fortyseven Infinite production (and consumption) to just to keep the economy going. Maybe that’s a defect.