Fridges never die.

Self-hosters:

Thermal cycling is one of the biggest stressors electrical components can be subjected to. Leaving your processor on and at a consistent load massively improves the lifetime of the chip. So take THAT, mom!

My refrigerator was never the same after everything that happened in Yugoslavia.

Just be sure to clear the lint off your coils every five years or so. Otherwise you're making the poor guy suck air through a shag carpet.

Old fridges never die. Modern fridges are more efficient but more break-y, can't have both.

Fridges 100% die, they're made to now. If your fridge is really that old and you can manage it, NEVER get rid of it, tell your parents to leave it to you in their will lmao.

The fridge is a big pump, it needs to circulate... It's when it sits idle for too long that it risks death!

The webway must remain open!

Those young machine spirits need their rest

Fridges actually do rest. They cycle on and off as needed to maintain their desired temperature and on average only spend about 30% to 40% of their time "on".

Glances over at my 1954 GE Combination that has NEVER been serviced outside of cleaning and replacing the light bulbs.

Meanwhile old Iskra and Sloboda Čačak vacuum cleaners: "puny mortals I will exist until the heat death of the universe"

Me with computers that have operating hours comparable to the number of hours it's been since I got them:

My wife and I are on our third fridge in 35 years. But the furnace in her mom's house when we sold it 5 years ago had been running since the late 1970s.

heh. my 15 year old frigid started making random groans the last couple weeks. far enough apart that i couldnt figure out where it came from. got lucky one day it moaned while i was close enough to yank open the freezer and see where the lever for the icemaker had accidentally got flipped to the on position. since i hadnt hooked up the water line to it, the groan was the pump sucking vacuum

RIP to the Minsk fridge my granny used until 2022. Built end of 70s, that thing was continuously in use for 50 years.

Funny thing, when I moved in, my last apartment had a refrigerator that was made in Yugoslavia. It died.

LG fridges sure do.

My grandfather has a fridge that has been in operation since the late 70's. (It's a leopard brand fridge, the company no longer exists)

she probably just wants you to stop racking up the electric bill

Except LG and Samsung fridges or the ones that use the linear compressors.

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh...

We have a chest freeze from 1943 still running in my parents basement...

Lol I had to look up the year that happened because yeah, my fridge is roughly that old. It was the fridge we got when I was a kid and now I have it at my house. I'm planning on it working until I'm dead.

Is this from Warhammer?

A thousand refrigerator psychers must be sacrificed so the frig emperor can live on in perpetual conflict with the gods of chaos: Frigidaire, whirlpool, Samsung and Slaanesh!

Every time the power goes out.....!

We've had a GE fridge that's probably older than about 10 years. But you know, it's complicated enough that it feels like it's made to fail at some point.

Well, stuff stopped cooling but all the lights were on and everything else worked. It was really weird. We were thinking it might be a dead compressor or something. Crap, do we need a new fridge?

Nope! What basically amounts to a glorified computer fan with a fancier proprietary plug does all the work of distributing that cold air through the rest of the unit.

The proprietary plug is totally so they can sell it for $45, of course. Lol anyway, works like new!

Also get a dust mask and vacuum + blow out the back of your refrigerators, people. They get grooooss!!!

Do computers even benefit from rest, or it's just some boomer delusion?

Simplified:

Having a fridge running is nothing complicated compared to a computer. The compressor and the light inside are the only things that are being powered. Both components work mechanically: The compressor has an electric motor that is running when fed with electricity. Pistons inside the compressor are linked mechanically to the electric motor. The light inside the fridge is operated with a switch that is mecahanically connected to the door. The light is off when the door is closed. As long as electricity is fed to the fridge, it keeps running.

Computers however are more complicated, as they basically are running clocks that connect an event with a time stamp. They can get disturbed easily when several events happen. When a computer is running long enough it can happen that the memory overflows when a specific event is being executed for example. For this reason it is renommended that your smartphone is supposed to be restarted at least one a month, otherwise it couldn't function properly.

If refrigerators were operated the same way as a computer, like your laptop or smartphone, I bet it has to be restarted every once in a while, otherwise a malfunction would occur. To my knowledge refrigerators are built the same like 40 years ago, albeit with more efficient compressors, better insulation and less harmful refrigerant.