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Why are you surprised? This is the common pattern of tech activism: start with a kernel of a legitimate grievance, grow it into a whole crop of outrage, and har
by quotemstr 6y ago
Why are you surprised? This is the common pattern of tech activism: start with a kernel of a legitimate grievance, grow it into a whole crop of outrage, and harvest that outrage to make new rules that actually make everything a bit worse.
Designing for repairability has costs both monetary and functional. Why should everyone have to pay these costs on the say-so of a few people whose main claim to legitimate authority is their social media follower count?
I believe this push for repairability is bad and that it will lead to bad outcomes for consumers. The market ought to be what tells us what product features are really important.
- AdrianB1 6y agoYou are right, but then let's make it mandatory for the end user to safely recycle all the components from their devices; they should not be allowed to sale or donate old devices, but have to recycle every piece of it. The purpose? Safe disposal. If you don't want to extend the life of the devices, keep it forever or safely dispose it.
- quotemstr 6y agoModern landfills are safe disposal sites. Recycling can be economically incentivized where it makes sense.
- andrepd 6y agoMake -> consume -> put in landfill is not a sustainable process.
- quotemstr 6y agoYes it is. In the distant future, we can mine landfills for raw materials.
- AdrianB1 6y agoDo it now, don't leave the future pay for your current debt.
- google234123 6y agoYou are against any deficit spending?
- AdrianB1 6y agoNo, I am against leaving to others to solve the problems we create.
- thinkharderdev 6y agoI tend to agree with this position. This all feels a bit like "I want everyone else to finance my niche desire to hack on my device." It seems like if this were really a thing that a lot of consumers wanted then someone would be filling that market demand. But I suspect that the overwhelming majority of consumers don't in fact want this. They want a secure device that just works and they upgrade regularly before their old device is EOL.