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graceful degradation: the opposite of planned obsolescence (slrpnk.net)
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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

The proper term isn't graceful degradation, but fault tolerance.

It just describes how many core systems or components can fail before the device itself stops working.

For example, a jet will have multiple redundancies for almost all major systems which allows many of them to fail in the air without causing the plane to crash or force an emergency landing.