Could you expound on this point? I don't think there is any appliance that is made only of metal that has planned obsolescence. For example a cheese greater I would expect to last forever as long as you don't buy a…
I may be living in the past in this aspect. I admit my statement earlier that only plastic being printed reasonably may be wrong. I don't know what SLS is, but I briefly looked it up and it looks like the cheapest ones…
>Handmade does not mean "hacked together". Airplanes are handmade. My dinner is handmade. In my view you are defining two types of handmade here. Dinner can be handmade of course, but from an evolutionary perspective…
>People don't write their own open source. Expertise and economies of scale are a thing. True, people don't write their open source, but what distinguishes open code from open blueprints is that in software the plan,…
Of course having the plans is great. I wish all information was free. My point is that planned obsolescence, assuming it exists (which I do) can only be solved by the manufacturer. Even if we make an open source…
I was going to make a note in my first post about 3d printing but I forgot. In my opinion 3d printing cannot be a solution until metal 3d printing is cheap. For the blender example, do you really want to use a handmade…
Could you expound on this? In my mind there must ultimately be a manufacturer of a given product. Even if there was a completely open source blender, for example, manufacturers would be incentivized to make it in such a…
Could you expound on this point? I don't think there is any appliance that is made only of metal that has planned obsolescence. For example a cheese greater I would expect to last forever as long as you don't buy a…
I may be living in the past in this aspect. I admit my statement earlier that only plastic being printed reasonably may be wrong. I don't know what SLS is, but I briefly looked it up and it looks like the cheapest ones…
>Handmade does not mean "hacked together". Airplanes are handmade. My dinner is handmade. In my view you are defining two types of handmade here. Dinner can be handmade of course, but from an evolutionary perspective…
>People don't write their own open source. Expertise and economies of scale are a thing. True, people don't write their open source, but what distinguishes open code from open blueprints is that in software the plan,…
Of course having the plans is great. I wish all information was free. My point is that planned obsolescence, assuming it exists (which I do) can only be solved by the manufacturer. Even if we make an open source…
I was going to make a note in my first post about 3d printing but I forgot. In my opinion 3d printing cannot be a solution until metal 3d printing is cheap. For the blender example, do you really want to use a handmade…
Could you expound on this? In my mind there must ultimately be a manufacturer of a given product. Even if there was a completely open source blender, for example, manufacturers would be incentivized to make it in such a…