• tehWrapper
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    812 hours ago

    It feels like things are so powerful and complex that failure rates of all these devices is much higher now.

    • @[email protected]
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      27 hours ago

      You are just short of needing a personal sized nuclear reactor to power these damn things, so I mean the logic follows that the failure rate is going to climb

    • Rekall IncorporatedOP
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      1112 hours ago

      I don’t have any stats to back this up, but I wouldn’t be surprised if failure rates were higher back in the 90s and 2000s.

      We have much more sophisticated validation technologies and the benefit of industry, process and operational maturity.

      Would be interesting to actually analyze the real world dynamics around this.

      • @[email protected]
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        7 hours ago

        Not very many people had a dedicated GPU in the 90s and 2000s. And there’s no way the failure rate was higher, not even Limewire could melt down the family PC back then. It sure gave it the college try, but it was usually fixable. The biggest failures, bar none, were HD or media drives.

        • @Jimmycakes
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          25 hours ago

          We all did they used to cost like 60 bucks

      • tehWrapper
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        18 hours ago

        I am going to guess the amount made is also much higher than 90s and 2000s since hardware tech is way more popular and used in way more places in the world. So maybe a lower percent but just a high total amount.

        But I have no idea…