cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/13401615
Something that should be considered when buying your micromobility device: Try to get something that will last and not end up as trash.
Man, I’m getting tired for all this corporate apologists.
Yeah, it’s easy to just say “customer should do this, customer should do that”
Why don’t we ask why the customers are like that in the first place. Let’s start with the fact that most consumer devices only get a few years of support.
What happens after that support ends? At best you’ll be vulnerable to security exploits. At worst, you won’t be able to use it in the modern world (3G, anyone?).
While I cannot blame the technological advancement, I do blame the fact that vendors like to make their stuff like black boxes.
Screen or battery broke? Gotta pay hundreds of dollars to get that specific part that doesn’t work on other model (of the same brand even). Kernel 6.6 is the new LTS? Too bad your board is stuck with 4.19 due to all the vendor-specific stuff. Wanna try to embody the spirit of open source and get that vendor-specific to mainline? Too bad you cannot run it to see that it works because we locked the bootloader for reasons you can’t understand.
All that bullshit, and we’re still the one to blame?
of course, they make proprietary, disposable garbage and no one cares.
Not made to be reused, not made to be repaired and not made to be recycled.
not even made to be used without the express consent of the overlords sometimes.
Yep. It’s a terrible state of affairs from some many angles. Law makes need to wake up and see how badly the market is failing and then regulated.
sadly at this point i think well have to rebel to see common sense stuff like this happening any time soon
Right to repair laws, and the open hardware, and open source movements, are our best hope.
i know. the point i made is that they wont pass good laws, or open source anything that matters without being forced to.
I see right to repair as the thin edge of the wedge, and it is being driven into cracks. The is good movement for this in the US and the EU. France has a repairability index. It will take time, but in the end openness will win out because it is just better. Part of the way of forcing the issue is copyleft. So much out there is already built on open and closed the last mile. Good example of copyleft doing it’s thing is in 3D printers, for example : https://github.com/SoftFever/OrcaSlicer
Reduce, Reuse… only then Recycle. How about penalizing companies for imposing software caps? As long as the hardware is capable, i should be able to continue to use it and upgrade the software. At the very least unlock the hardware once it’s out of warranty.
It is ridiculously difficult to find stuff that isn’t trash. I have the money to spend on better quality stuff, but for some things it is just hard to find stuff that is made to last.
