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Post by ZandraJoi on Feb 27, 2021 10:58:37 GMT -5
www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/apr/15/the-right-to-repair-planned-obsolescence-electronic-waste-mountain“Nathan Proctor is talking via Google Hangouts from Boston, Massachusetts, about an allegedly central feature of modern manufacturing known as planned obsolescence. This is the idea that some of the world’s biggest companies have been selling us products either knowing full well that they will only last a couple of years, or having deliberately built a short lifespan into the itemor its software. It is a charge the companies would reject, but we all have everyday knowledge of what he is talking about – the suddenly dead or “bricked” – made as useless as a brick – phone, discarded printer or broken laptop. Most of us dismiss the phenomenon as an irritating but unavoidable feature of modern life. But Proctor is the director of the Right to Repair campaign spawned by the US’s Public Interest Research Group (founded in 1971 by the celebrated activist Ralph Nader), and he wants us to see things very differently.” My notes: This is sad. We have enough e-waste & they make it so we HAVE to keep buying. www.familyhandyman.com/diy-advice/ways-manufacturers-make-it-tough-for-diy-repairs
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Post by lainee on Oct 10, 2021 14:33:14 GMT -5
So true! And, beyond sad...it's criminal. The wrong people are in charge here & in a lot of other places, too...what ARE they thinking!? Never mind...they just don't care.
It will continue until the right people get their acts together.
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Post by Bob on Oct 13, 2021 17:36:20 GMT -5
Seems as soon as you buy something, it’s obsolete nowadays. Faster, better.
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