I haven’t owned a tv since 2002. A friend’s kid thew a remote at their’s and cracked the screen. I asked if they could get it repaired and everyone looked at me like I had two heads.
“You just get a new one…!”
Gone are they days were people get things repaired, especially the “simple things” like getting a good leather shoes sole replaced, or getting a couch redone. Though planned obsolescence plays a role in this as well.
It also means these services are more expensive as a result.
Shout out to Bosch… I have a 10-year old dishwasher from them and the drain pump stopped working. It was so easy to replace and readily available. I was actually happy to have it break, all told.
A lot of enshitification has happened in the last decade so no idea if their products are still like that, but when the time comes to get a new one I’ll certainly be giving them my first look.
And even then it seems like the boots theory is dead for most stuff. Even when you buy the “premium” products they fall apart and are made of crap materials or are designed to be irreparable
For me it was more about how much longer they would last. The soles they gave me were better than the originals. The rest is just small stiches and patchwork I can do at home
Sad, ain’t it? I repair all kinds of stuff. Have a 50" TV that only needs a new board when I can afford it. The 55" on my wall needed 2 new capacitors, $8 on eBay.
There’s a shoe repair shop in my town. People absolutely do get simple things repaired what you can’t get repaired are things like TVs anymore.
But things don’t break like they used to, it used to be that a component would fail and you could just replace that broken component but everything’s integrated these days so if one thing goes down the whole thing is dead.
Though not the most academic resource, the YouTubers How Ridiculous recently popped a CRT screen. Because of their video format, I’m having a bit of time identifying which one it was, but it might have been this:
You may not own a tv but do you own a computer monitor? No one fixes those either and a tv is essentially a monitor with an extra control board. The screen is the device.
Replacing the LED panel of a common 65in flat-screen TV costs almost the same amount as a brand new TV and months of time, and money to ship between the repair center and your home due to the weight; lol of course they looked at you like that, you sounded silly, innocently ignorant and ridiculous.
I haven’t owned a tv since 2002. A friend’s kid thew a remote at their’s and cracked the screen. I asked if they could get it repaired and everyone looked at me like I had two heads. “You just get a new one…!”
Gone are they days were people get things repaired, especially the “simple things” like getting a good leather shoes sole replaced, or getting a couch redone. Though planned obsolescence plays a role in this as well.
It also means these services are more expensive as a result.
Shout out to Bosch… I have a 10-year old dishwasher from them and the drain pump stopped working. It was so easy to replace and readily available. I was actually happy to have it break, all told.
A lot of enshitification has happened in the last decade so no idea if their products are still like that, but when the time comes to get a new one I’ll certainly be giving them my first look.
I was lucky enough to find a shoe shop that does really good resoles in my city. Not impossible to repair stuff, just hard
You also have to be able to afford shoes worthy of the considerable repair expense.
And even then it seems like the boots theory is dead for most stuff. Even when you buy the “premium” products they fall apart and are made of crap materials or are designed to be irreparable
For me it was more about how much longer they would last. The soles they gave me were better than the originals. The rest is just small stiches and patchwork I can do at home
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Sad, ain’t it? I repair all kinds of stuff. Have a 50" TV that only needs a new board when I can afford it. The 55" on my wall needed 2 new capacitors, $8 on eBay.
when I lived in the UK there were shoe repairmen everywhere, they were great, and if the repair was easy they wouldn’t even charge me.
in the States I haven’t seen a single one
Fast fashion ain’t just for fabrics baybeeeee
There’s a shoe repair shop in my town. People absolutely do get simple things repaired what you can’t get repaired are things like TVs anymore.
But things don’t break like they used to, it used to be that a component would fail and you could just replace that broken component but everything’s integrated these days so if one thing goes down the whole thing is dead.
Even when Tv repairmen were common, they never repaired broken screens. TV repairmen used to swap out components but not the screen.
CRT “screens” are non-repairable for different reasons, but yeah
there are impossible to repair and extremely strong. they have to be, they have vacuum inside, if it cracks it can implode.
I had a CRT monitor back in the day that tipped off the edge of the desk while I was hooking it up.
CLUNK! - hiss
Welp.
I learned a valuable lesson about leverage that day.
happy it didn’t implode. they could have been a bomb…
acktually… I now have to double check if they implode at all…
Though not the most academic resource, the YouTubers How Ridiculous recently popped a CRT screen. Because of their video format, I’m having a bit of time identifying which one it was, but it might have been this:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Hb6neW9S4XM
It is kind of hard to see what is going on, but found this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9_Pez2btt0&list=PLkpFupEMkI3uOPaU9NQ45paO7286JVYUH
It does not implode as I thought, I was wrong. Also that was the chilliest dude to ever smash a tv with a fire extinguisher,
Just bring it to carglass, they inject their special resin, and Bob’s your uncle! Good as new!
You may not own a tv but do you own a computer monitor? No one fixes those either and a tv is essentially a monitor with an extra control board. The screen is the device.
Replacing the LED panel of a common 65in flat-screen TV costs almost the same amount as a brand new TV and months of time, and money to ship between the repair center and your home due to the weight; lol of course they looked at you like that, you sounded silly, innocently ignorant and ridiculous.
That’s true for pretty much any panel size. Especially in 2002, when the TV had barely a processor inside.