It's really a crime the way so much useful technology gets dumped as soon as one weak part fails. I had a microwave that stopped working, most people would immediately have dumped it but out of curiosity I opened it up (yeah i know, possibly unsafe, even when unplugged) and found there was just one slightly corroded connection, everything else worked fine.
This repairability movement needs to become mainstream, although of course vested interests from this disposable age will oppose it. Of the approximately "one credit card worth" of microplastic we all ingest every week, a lot of it is (and over time will be even more) down to plastic from ditched broken crap. Not to mention the animals that will be choking on all this stuff centuries after we're all gone.
> To someone who has become way too accustomed to the replaceability of everything via Amazon, the joy of repairability was really refreshing.
I'm so pleased when people discover this.
There's something deeply satisfying about repairing something instead of replacing it. Not for everyone, I'm sure, but for many. I know that for me, personally, repairing a thing makes it "mine" in a deep way that nothing else can do.
This repairability movement needs to become mainstream, although of course vested interests from this disposable age will oppose it. Of the approximately "one credit card worth" of microplastic we all ingest every week, a lot of it is (and over time will be even more) down to plastic from ditched broken crap. Not to mention the animals that will be choking on all this stuff centuries after we're all gone.