What's something good that happened today?

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Had to shell out $1300 but got my AC on the house fixed. It’s old but the AC guy is a friend who was saying that the older units like mine should be able to get like 18-20 years with proper maintenance. So I felt I made the right choice vs balling out $6k+ for a new unit

I’ve had multiple friends and family members have their brand new units breaking frequently and I said to the guy what’s with not just AC’s but older appliances in general just being so much more reliable than the newer stuff? Is this just my conspiracy brain but is the newest stuff being built to break or just has shit quality control or something?

He was already smiling like he agreed as I was asking it and said he can only speak for the AC units but the newer ones have many more sensors where if one of them gets tripped, everything shuts down

I just notice with microwaves, ovens, hot water heaters, etc, a lot of the older stuff is reliable as hell for years and years and the newer stuff seems to be kinda crap /shrug