Raglan Niall :lk: :tinoflag:<p>I have spent a frustrating 'day' reluctantly doing two main tasks:<br>1/ Purchasing/speccing parts for an experimental electrical build.<br>2/ Working with the suppliers of a failed piece of electrical hardware to get a warranty replacement commissioned and working as required.</p><p>In both cases I have been dealing with Chinese suppliers because the price &/or availability makes them the only real option.</p><p>In both cases the documentation is woeful and so I spend too long in back-and-forths. "How do we do x?' 'What is Y?'. 'The old one had these same settings and worked, what is not right here? How can we even tell?'.</p><p>This is the price of cheap. It is not because it is Chinese but because it is cheap and that is sadly what we value. Cheaper is not better value.</p><p>I am not a coder but I feel this is what coders are worried about with the advent of AI code. Stuff that seems cheaper but is a joyless pain in the butt to maintain & work with.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Value" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Value</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/Price" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Price</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/CheapNotGood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CheapNotGood</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/YellingIntoTheVoid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>YellingIntoTheVoid</span></a></p>