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On iFixit and the Right To Repair (vice.com)
Jason Koebler writes: Motherboard sent a reporter to the Electronics Reuse Convention in New Orleans to investigate the important but threatened world of smartphone and electronics repair. As manufacturers start using proprietary screws, offer phone lease programs and use copyright law to threaten repair professionals, the right-to-repair is under more threat than ever. "That Apple and other electronics manufacturers don't sell repair parts to consumers or write service manuals for them isn't just annoying, it's an environmental disaster, [iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens] says. Recent shifts to proprietary screws, the ever-present threat of legal action under a trainwreck of a copyright law, and an antagonistic relationship with third-party repair shops shows that the anti-repair culture at major manufacturers isn't based on negligence or naiveté, it's malicious."
This, this this, and this. I'm an American, too, and I have to agree with this. I have a co-worker who regularly goes to the doctor for his weight, yet drinks 5 cokes every day, eats nothing but burgers and other greasy food, and wonders why he has trouble walking.
It's not the fact that Americans consume, consume, consume-it's the mentality. We stuff our faces and wonder why we have so many health problems. We buy, buy, buy and wonder why we don't have money. We push "da babble" and wonder why the rest of the world believes in evolution.
We take pride in willful ignorance.