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.
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.
First off, they release the same phone every year thank you very much.
Second, just because you’re using those devices doesn’t mean they’re properly supported. Those phones haven’t received a single security update in years which means you’re vulnerable to various kinds of SMS attacks that have been patched on devices that have received security patches. That’s the other part of E-Waste. Devices getting actual software and security support. Just because you can upgrade the SSD in a laptop doesn’t make it less E-Waste. You have simply now added a new drive to the mound of trash if that drive failed. Back in 2014-16 HP laptops had these Intel SSDs in them. They failed like crazy. Usually about 10 per every 100 devices. We kept a supply of SSDs on hand for when those drives eventually shit themselves. Now, on a MacBook a failure rate of the SSDs/internal storage is incredibly low. I personally haven’t had a MacBook that’s had internal storage failure and I’ve managed probably close to 750 MacBooks. So of the probably 2000 hp laptops, with Intel drives that we swapped after 2 years because they were dying. We created a decent amount of e-waste. Just because we could repair the device easily doesn’t mean it isn’t still contributing.
We need higher quality materials used in fab with longevity, not just repairability. I can fix almost anything given enough time. I can’t fix thousands of broken things constantly assaulting me with work orders because of unreliable parts.
Maybe don’t write out messages when you’re hOrni.
The “h” is silent.