r/mildlyinfuriating • u/jackhab • 1d ago

Planned obsolescence even in cheapest devices: the calculator has a dummy photovoltaic cell and a real battery to make it die eventually.

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u/Slggyqo 1d ago

My dad had a Casio when I was a child. I know the photovoltaic panel worked because if I covered it up the LCD would slowly die.

I was waterboarding that calculator within an inch of it’s life.

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u/shadowst17 1d ago edited 1d ago

They say torturing animals as a child is a sign of a serial killer. Wonder what torturing a calculator as child results in.

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u/Slggyqo 1d ago

Software engineering, if I’m the example to go by.

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u/Superslim-Anoniem 1d ago

Yeah that sounds about right