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It started with notebooks, but that wasn’t the master plan.

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[–] hperrin@lemmy.world 46 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (16 children)

I would love to see them make modular and repairable:

  • Phones
  • Tablets
  • 2-in-1s
  • Televisions
  • Monitors
  • Cameras
  • WiFi routers
  • Printers (copier, scanner)

Those things so often end up in the dump just because one small part fails, or gets too outdated. Think about all the parts in a wifi router that work just fine, but get thrown away anyway, because the radio module doesn’t support the shiny new WiFi version.

[–] Benaaasaaas@lemmy.world 27 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Average people really don't care about newest wifi version, so I'd say routers are one of the longest living electronics in most households, unless they are rented out from your ISP who might be interested in updating it often to justify the rent.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 7 months ago

ISPs buy the cheapest reasonable equipment they can. When I have had equipment killed by lightning, the ISP's VDSL router has always been among the dead

It especially sucks that the ISP isn't following whatever standards there are, so other VDSL modems can't connect

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