Corporate FuckeryAF 7.0
Buying White Goods in the Dark: The Vanishing Repairability Metric
Major appliance manufacturers continue to treat long-term serviceability metrics as proprietary secrets until the compressor fails.
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Engineering Fuckery
Objects designed by competent people under incentives that punished competence.
Engineering FuckeryAF 9.1
$10,000 REFRIGERATOR BECOMES DISPOSABLE AFTER ONE INACCESSIBLE COMPONENT FAILS
A sealed control board, priced at $34 to manufacture, is positioned behind a foamed-in panel. When it fails, the recommended repair is a new refrigerator.
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Packaging FuckeryAF 7.4
PACKAGING FOR A 2-GRAM MEMORY CARD REQUIRES SCISSORS, A KNIFE AND MINOR BLOOD LOSS
The card weighs two grams. The rigid welded clamshell protecting it weighs nineteen, cannot be opened by hand, and sends an estimated small number of people to urgent care each year.
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Architectural FuckeryAF 6.2
HOTEL SHOWER OPERATED BY ONE UNLABELLED DIAL AND FOUR ICONS NOBODY CAN IDENTIFY
Guests are given a chrome cylinder, a pictogram of what may be a butterfly, and the expectation that they will work it out before the water reaches 54°C.
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Automotive FuckeryAF 2.1
CARMAKER RESTORES PHYSICAL BUTTONS AFTER ADMITTING DRIVERS DISLIKE LOOKING AWAY FROM ROAD
Wipers, demist, hazard lights and temperature returned to hardware in the 2027 refresh. The company said the touchscreen-only layout had been a mistake. We are obliged to report this pleasantly.
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