[freshtake]

I don't know, I think the point of the example is one of transparent engineering. VHS players could break for any number of reasons but the manufacturers used to put in effort to make them repairable. Obviously a much simpler piece of hardware, but the relative effort felt much greater.

When I used to use Google Wifi, it regularly struggled to connect or establish/maintain connectivity to the outside world, even though my modem was successfully connected. Similar to nest devices, you often have to power cycle them several times to get them into a good state

[bee_rider]

I guess. All I know is, when I was a teenager we had a broken VHS player that I wanted to fix. I was a clever kid, so I took it from a broken VHS player, to a broken VHS player that was also in many pieces.

[freshtake]

Lol yeah, very familiar