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Bierculles t1_j9yptap wrote

Reply to comment by Surur in A platform for products with no planned obsolescence by shanoshamanizum

Coffee machines have a built in counter that turns them off after a set numbers of coffees. Officially it is for quality reasons but you can easily get twice as many coffees out of a machine withoput a drop in quality. You can reset the counters if you know how, it's not that hard.

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Surur t1_j9yrtkb wrote

I think you need to name and shame.

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Bierculles t1_j9yt4tx wrote

Oh broh, it's been a decade since then, i don't know if this is even a thing anymore. Sorry i do not remember, it was just a teacher of mine who showed us the trick on his coffee machine, no idea what brand it was, but certainly a cheap one.

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PublicFurryAccount t1_j9zyw73 wrote

Searching around, it looks like it wasn't planned obsolescence but malfunctions in various sensors. This was pretty common a decade ago as "smart" was just starting; it was a slapped-on feature that wasn't engineered well.

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Pecheuer t1_ja1vy6l wrote

No fucking way, I knew something happened to my machine.

Legit one day it just stopped working on me, I pulled it apart, put it back together, there was nothing wrong with it, it just stopped working. Fucking cunts

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