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 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.