Comment by g947o

Comment by g947o 4 days ago

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> Weight equipment should be able to last decades.

"should" or "actually can"? Do you have references to show that's the actual lifespan of the equipment, mechanically?

jerf 4 days ago

Weight training equipment lasts decades all the time. It's just big piles of metal, it's not hard to get right.

What actually prompted the engineering-CYA "should" is if the Android tablet is controlling some sort of robotic system for selecting weight sizes, that that system might have an expected life span on par with a tablet, being a physical thing moving around some pins or something in a potentially hostile user environment. That'll break long before anything else would.

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  • g947o 4 days ago

    So you don't have a reference.

    I'm just going to ignore this.

    • jerf 3 days ago

      If you are the sort of person who needs a reference for "weight equipment lasts a long time", feel free. Whatever guilt and shame you think I should be feeling over such a claim, believe me, I don't. I'm more in the "feeling pity for you" department here; I've been around enough to know what kind of person types messages like this.