I hate how unrepairable everything is

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

^^^ And they got sued over it:

High Court Allows Drug Store to Sue Detroit Edison Co. (Published 1976)

Sup Ct rules, 6-3, that Lawrence Cantor, owner of Seiden Drugs, may bring antitrust suit against Detroit Edison for its system of providing free light bulbs to residential customers; lower ct dismissed Cantor's suit on grounds that cost of bulb supplies were included in elec rates approved by...

www.nytimes.com

Free Bulb Plan Dims in Detroit Following Suit (Published 1977)

Detroit Edison will no longer distribute 'free' light bulbs and will pay legal fees incurred by druggist Lawrence Cantor in his antitrust suit to halt practice (M)

www.nytimes.com

 

[Torn Mind]

^^^ And they got sued over it:

High Court Allows Drug Store to Sue Detroit Edison Co. (Published 1976)

Sup Ct rules, 6-3, that Lawrence Cantor, owner of Seiden Drugs, may bring antitrust suit against Detroit Edison for its system of providing free light bulbs to residential customers; lower ct dismissed Cantor's suit on grounds that cost of bulb supplies were included in elec rates approved by...

www.nytimes.com

Free Bulb Plan Dims in Detroit Following Suit (Published 1977)

Detroit Edison will no longer distribute 'free' light bulbs and will pay legal fees incurred by druggist Lawrence Cantor in his antitrust suit to halt practice (M)

www.nytimes.com

The amount of bulbs a utility provides these days is hardly where one "furnishes its residential customers, without additional charge, with almost 50% Of the most frequently used standard-size light bulbs under a longstanding practice antedating state regulation of electric utilities. ".

That case has a business owner suing a power company because a power company cut into the sales of the business owner.

 

[waffleironhead]

Maxlite, 3/2020, 50K hours.

Shit, I might be dead by then.🙁

I put in a bunch of lights that look kinda like these. Rated to 50k hours as well. Got maybe 3 years out of them. Cant find any that match for replacement. Went to socketed fixtures so i dont have to throw out the whole thing next time.
https://www.menards.com/main/lighti...c7219/p-4364363664292184-c-7496.htm?exp=false

 

[highland145]

That sucks. IIRC, mine have a 5 year warranty.

 

[Kaido]

I just spent 4 hours replacing a laptop cooling fan in an MSI gaming computer. What a PAIN that was!

I worked on an HP business laptop awhile back that had captive screws & easily accessible fans, memory, drives, etc. It was such a joy to work on lol.

 

[lxskllr]

The $1.25 stores sell led lamps for... $1.25 :^D I figure they're subsidized by the electric company. Even Chinese magic can't make an led lamp that cheap.

 

[Torn Mind]

I just spent 4 hours replacing a laptop cooling fan in an MSI gaming computer. What a PAIN that was!

I worked on an HP business laptop awhile back that had captive screws & easily accessible fans, memory, drives, etc. It was such a joy to work on lol.

Consumer equipment is not repairable because they want you to buy again.

Business lappys have it better because the business doesn't want to lose money. In turn, the computer seller doesn't want to lose those juicy lease contracts. So making it easy for the IT guys to fix it, which results in lower repair costs, is incentivized in business laptops.