Godammn vacuum cleaner broke. Took it apart, its just a part of the brush roller that is broken. Should be an easy fix. But they don’t sell spare parts for my vacuum. They never have, they just want you to buy a new one. So one little easily replaced plastic bit makes the whole thing into non-functional mostly plastic waste. The vacuum is even clearly designed to be easily repaired, it’s one of the most intelligently laid out appliances I’ve ever seen.
But it’s not profitable to sell spare parts, so I have to send this thing to a landfill if I can’t figure out some ghetto fix. This intentional wastefulness is one of the things that pisses me off about capitalism nearly every day.
I hereby manifest into existence thus: paying money to see a green ecological scene within a dystopically bleak city.
Cory Doctorow wrote a short story about that:
First time I learned about that, and they used light bulbs as an example because I guess they used to last very long compared to nowadays. Infuriating.
What? I’m not being funny, but the modern LED bulb lasts orders of magnitude longer than even the best incandescent.
“right to repair” is definitely one of the things that radicalized me.
Ifixit.com is a great resource. I bought their basic repair tool set and got a cool ass poster. https://www.ifixit.com/Manifesto
Wait…when you buy a phone it comes locked? Here that only happens for free/cheap phones on plans. You buy the phone pre-paid you have no issue
Unlocked phones cost astronomical prices in the us.
This is partially a money grab and partially due to laws that restrict burner phones.
What, so even once you’ve paid it off, it’s still locked to that carrier?
I’m thinking about doing this but I heard it can ruin the waterproofing and I really like having that peace of mind
