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graceful degradation: the opposite of planned obsolescence (slrpnk.net)

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Planned obsolescence is taking steps to ensure the device fails.

But if I have a device that requires four batteries to function and one of them fails and this causes the device to stop working, that's not planned obsolescence, it's just not graceful degradation. It isn't planned obsolescence because the device isn't useless, I just need to put some new batteries in.

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, and this isn’t even really degradation, it’s just supporting different requirements / use cases.