The end of the “de minimis” exemption for cheap parcel shipments, nearly a century old, is prompting countries everywhere to suspend shipments to the U.S.
I have a buddy who (we are around 70) repaired anything and everything.
Had a booming business repairing circuit boards for many different products. Then they started putting blobs of glue all over boards so no repairs. All the other stuff he would repair, similar thing. Business’ locked it up. Pretty much destroyed his business. So sad to watch it happen over all those years.
I recently got a soldering iron to repair a Logitech mouse because I was frustrated buying new ones so frequently when the switch stopped working.
The two cheaper models were really easy to desoldier the switches. But the expensive one seemed to have some kind of metal heatsink that made it really hard to melt the solder.
I’m a fan of repairing broken things. Too bad it’s basically impossible to get parts and repair most things anymore.
I have a buddy who (we are around 70) repaired anything and everything. Had a booming business repairing circuit boards for many different products. Then they started putting blobs of glue all over boards so no repairs. All the other stuff he would repair, similar thing. Business’ locked it up. Pretty much destroyed his business. So sad to watch it happen over all those years.
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I recently got a soldering iron to repair a Logitech mouse because I was frustrated buying new ones so frequently when the switch stopped working.
The two cheaper models were really easy to desoldier the switches. But the expensive one seemed to have some kind of metal heatsink that made it really hard to melt the solder.
After some time, I got it though.
Nice. Not only is it fun but you get to stick it to the businesses by not having to replace their stuff every 5 mins.
The age of the 3d printer is arising.
Why repair?
Just toss that shit in a landfill and buy another one!
Hooray for literal dumpster based consumerism and a capitalistic production paradigm.
EDIT:
Perhaps amusingly, I have a cheap massage gun that uh, the head got wobbly, starts knocking around off the center line.
Solution?
Fucking duct tape, just basically narrowed the uh… neck hole? of the thing? I dunno what to call it, the aperture for the massage head.
Doesn’t knock around near as much now lol.
Why use a landfill when you can toss it in the ocean? You can never fill that up completely.
He says as the ocean is completely filled with water. Smh my head
Sounds like a new achievement for Factorio or Satisfactory.
Possibly Dwarf Fortress? RimWorld?
“Wormwood, Blight the Sea.”