My father owns an electronic repair shop specialized in TV, cameras and Music devices.
The company has official agreements with the big brands to offer official technical support for their products, meaning that they have internal access to repair manuals and repair pieces to order from the official brand. Having a spare part more expensive than the product is a usual tactic from the manufacturer to not comply with the current EU law of producing and having stock of that piece for a minimum amount of years.
The 99% of the customers that are notified of the price of the piece, drop the idea of repairing it as is cheaper to have a new one.
The funny part is that some customers still decides to repair them, and if you try to call the manufacturer to order the repair piece, either they delay months the shipment, or they end up sending the full original product from some old stock as replacement to give to the customer (or to disassemble in the repair shop if the customer still wants his one).
If current laws are, how to say this, "creatively (but legally) avoided" by companies, I really doubt that new regulations will help at all.
It's just a matter of closing the loopholes then? I see law/regulation as a lot like releasing software, you need to iterate towards an ideal. Expecting an MVP to be perfect right out of the gate seems counterintuitive.
Not just closing the loopholes; specifically imposing consumer awardable penalties for failing to support a product - something like treble damages for willful infringement should do the trick.
Can't provide a part within a specific time frame at maximum cost of the appropriate fraction of the price, for a defined period of time after the product is sold? Great, the consumer is awarded an amount equal to 3 times the MSRP at product release to ensure they can acquire a replacement product!
The "HPE Battery for real-time clock" (otherwise known as CR2032) from the an official Australian HPE spare-parts supplier was listed at $50AUD. Now, those types of listings are behind a "Request Quote" partially, IMHO, because it was shared around a number of VARs as a joke.
Maybe the extra money was for the oversized boxes and packaging HPE spares are sent in...
The 99% of the customers that are notified of the price of the piece, drop the idea of repairing it as is cheaper to have a new one.
Offer to buy the defective device from the customer, and now you have a source of spare parts to fix others. This was common strategy back then, but of course doesn't help the situation where some parts fail a lot more than others.
How long should a manufacturer being required to provide parts support? Building tons of parts and then warehousing them for decades has a very real cost.
> Building tons of parts and then warehousing them for decades has a very real cost
I wonder how the automotive industry has managed to do just that over decades.
The answer is relatively obvious, laws require them to do so, which in turn limits the amount of "SKU churn" to keep the logistics reasonable. Your usual car design holds on for 3 years, after which it gets a tiny rebrush that fixes usability or other issues that cropped up during the first period, and it will not change too much between the lines internally.
In contrast, we have many manufacturers that are as wasteful as to create "Black Friday" SKUs that are deceptively similarly named to "rest of the year" SKUs but built with slightly worse components.
This is utter, utter madness. There is no reason for this to exist at all.
They don’t tho The, not really. Very few of those parts are actually made by the automaker. They’re by Bosch, AC Delco, or any of the thousands of OEMs of brake pads, fuel injectors, and what have you. If actually try to buy a new exact OEM replacement for anything past about 10-15 years old, you probably aren’t. Instead you’ll be dealing with some 3rd tier anonymous vendor making clones.
People don't realize this. Blazor is about the developer. I am a `DevOps/Backend` guy and in my previous job some internal tools were made with Blazor.
It was such a joy to work with. Productivity was so high. You add Blazor Radzen components[1] or Syncfusion[2] and suddenly feels like magic. Super complex grid tables can filter, re-order columns, aggregate them and much more functionality for free in 10 lines or fewer.
I cannot recommend enough to people to give it a try. This technology enabled me to do a repair shop software in 1-2 month on my spare time. From customers to emitting bills in PDF. Zero JS and just using the basics grids from bootstrap CSS to make it responsive. As a non frontend developer, this was heaven.
Clearly. And that's exactly where the most salient criticism of it comes from: prioritizing the pleasure of the programmer during the development process over everything else, including the experience of the person who actually has to put up with using the thing—all while providing cover for the vendor who bid on the job to argue that they've fulfilled all the requirements so what are you upset about if it's a little janky? Classic enterprise crapware mindset.
Same role, this is exactly why have I kept myself focused on .NET and Java frameworks for Web development, or CMS in those platforms, and mostly leave SPA stuff for the FE team.
Native desktop development is another matter, though.
It's funny you're being downvoted, I've used Blazor on less important side projects and I love it for the same reasons, but a subset of HN hates it because their uBlock Origin no-Js anti-tracker cookieless oddball browsers choke on it.
Interestingly enough Google's crawlers don't even choke on it: my fully SignalR based site was indexed soon after getting a spike in traffic without an issue.
Does it annoy me that leaving the tab and coming back can kill the app? Sure. But often times I reach for it when I otherwise wouldn't have built a thing at all.
Most normal people will take an app with hair edges they can use over nothing so I'm going to keep reaching for it from time to time
No, people hate it because it's a massive downgrade in UX, especially the wasm variant, just because backend devs don't want to use the right tools for the job. I'm fine with it in internal apps, but public facing apps using blazor would be horrible for the users, which is why it is thankfully very rare to see.
Javascript seems downright lightweight and unbloated compared to shipping an entire dot net runtime for a crud form app. For what it's worth, I don't care about turning off javaScript or even bloat in general, but this is extreme.
That's not how the right tool for the job works: the tool that results in the smallest bundle size and the most impressive web metrics is absolutely worthless if 99% of the value in what you're making is it existing and the creator of said tool doesn't feel like building out a SPA.
Of the tens of thousands of people who found my tool useful, the only people who ever complained where Hacker News users, and the tool simply would not exist if I had gone and wasted my time spinning up Next, realizing the app router is garbage, RSC has no place in most React apps, then going back to pages router, then rediscovering how awful NextAuth is, then...
Which is exactly how some of my otherwise interesting side projects die too.
He is not. In Spain, for instance, it is already illegal to pay with cash costs above 1.000€ in any commerce. You are forced to buy it using a credit/debit card.
The government knows that you own a motorbike, you can't go around with an unregistered vehicle, you have to sign documents that prove the transfer of ownership, you also have to pay insurance on it, it's mandatory where I live in Europe.
It makes sense: if I buy a motorbike from you using cash and nobody knows about it, when I am going to rob a bank with it, the police would come knocking at your door. Would you like that just to let me use cash instead of any other system available because we are normal people that live in societies not in a lawless imaginary city in a western movie (west was not lawless, properties where already registered 4 thousands years ago by Egyptians, it's nothing new)
Simpler yet, if the police stops you and there isn't your name on the certificate of ownership , you have to justify why is that.
Again, it makes complete sense. It could have been stolen and you could be the thief.
A washing machine costs 250 euros, you can pay it in cash.
The limit is 10k, it's 40 washing machines.
The washing machine comes with a warranty, warranty is valid only if you put your name on it.
Only a fool would renounce to 2 years warranty to pay cash and not let the government know that they do laundry, like literally everybody else, I'm quite sure the government doesn't care if you own a washing machine, but then again I live in Europe, probably the CIA does and it's a big deal there.
I really don't understand how people feel comfortable going around with thousands of euros in cash in their pockets to buy stuff that they could have comfortably and safely bought from their couch using a free and immediate bank transfer that guarantees both parties against fraud, and theft and that have no handling costs.
American paranoia about government will be the worst heritage of these last two decades.
But probably even worse is the idea that your freedom means I have to pay the price for it.
Wanna pay a house or a car in cash, without any record of the transaction?
Go buy it from a criminal, because I am not selling it to you. Nobody would. Unless they are being paid to accept all that cash in one transaction.
The limit is for a single transaction, not for your entire life.
If they can freeze your money in the bank, they can also freeze the cash you keep stashed in your room.
paranoia is stupid.
I am all in favour for protester not living tracks, it doesn't involve money transactions over 10k in cash though. I don't see how the two things relate.
Your personal devices are already linked to your name.
Do you really believe you are anonymous?
SIM cards are not, for example, since forever here in Europe.
warranty certificates must contain all your personal data to be valid.
You would renounce to free 2 years warranty only to pay cash?
Why?
what's the deal with that laptop, what's the reason to keep it secret?
Suddenly your secrecy it's much more interesting for the shop owner than you paying with a bank transfer or credit card like any other person would do and not raise any suspicion.
If I was them I would alert someone, in case you'd do something illegal with it, just to be on the safe side.
See? even if you are a criminal using cash just for the sake of using cash it's stupid.
Most shops don't even accept large amount of money in cash, it's dangerous for them and costs them a lot more to handle and keep safe.
even many bank offices or postal office don't keep cash to avoid being robbed. It's for employees safety.
> Your personal devices are already linked to your name
It is hoped that nobody is so stupid to try that.
> Do you really believe you are anonymous?
I radically believe on that right of so being.
> You would renounce to free 2 years warranty only to pay cash?
Very certainly.
> Why?
Because that is what a Man does.
> what's the reason to keep it secret
Basicmost principle.
> interesting
Monkeys surely are intrigued when they see men acting: they cannot understand. If they had been part of a Civilization, they would know that a Man does not concede on the side of privacy.
> even if you are a criminal
Very obvious, it is expected that criminals be on FB and Tw and smile at Sino-Thatcherian cameras etc.
Nothing new, it is part of the scheme: criminals have something to hide; Men have everything to hide; subjects have nothing to hide.
There are people that believe in a magical being with long blonde hair that died and resurrected 3 days later.
That doesn't make it real.
I know a few people that cannot be tracked by the usual means, you would never survive living their life.
> Basicmost principle.
I'm sure police will understand when they stop you with 15k euros in your backpack and no justification for it.
> Monkeys surely are intrigued when they see men acting
No, they are not.
Privacy is closing the door when you go to the bathroom, what you are talking about is secrecy.
Which is why the CIA is called a secret service and not a privacy service.
To commit crimes unpunished, you need secrecy.
Interestingly, monkeys do understand that, some people don't.
> Very obvious, it is expected that criminals be on FB and Tw and smile at Sino-Thatcherian cameras etc.
It's exactly what they do. One of them bought Twitter. Another was best friend and producer of all the Hollywood celebrities. Another one won the presidential elections in the United States of A.
The 99% of the customers that are notified of the price of the piece, drop the idea of repairing it as is cheaper to have a new one. The funny part is that some customers still decides to repair them, and if you try to call the manufacturer to order the repair piece, either they delay months the shipment, or they end up sending the full original product from some old stock as replacement to give to the customer (or to disassemble in the repair shop if the customer still wants his one).
If current laws are, how to say this, "creatively (but legally) avoided" by companies, I really doubt that new regulations will help at all.