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They Literally Don't Make Things Like They Used To – SOME MORE NEWS (www.youtube.com)

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Hi. In today's episode, we look at Planned Obsolescence, the resulting mountains of e-waste, and why companies don't want you to be able to fix their crummy products.

If you expect Cody to be nice to Apple, you will be very disappointed.

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[-] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

microelectronics will be inherently difficult to upgrade, reuse and recycle. their continued hyper-evolution prevents any real programs. it will happen, but there are plenty of more voluminous, low-hanging-fruit we could be working on immediately.

these are bigger items that are now made like garbage like all home appliances. these things should absolutely be user-upgrade able, 100% recyclable and designed to last decades. they could easily be designed in more modular fashion, and absolutely used to last decades.

[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

We’ll eventually reach a point where we can just have electronics scavenge the defective electronics.

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