Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.::With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.

  • troutsushi@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    Oooooh, that’s a neat idea in light of the current EU legislation concerning the Right to Repair: Introduce a mandatory, highly visible, and standardized seal that all electronic devices have to display on the front of their box:

    Repairable

    or

    Disposable

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      1 year ago

      Then tax the shit out of disposable products please as we already waste way too much

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      1 year ago

      I would also suggest mandatory price caps on disposable products, to incentivize the elimination of production of such devices.

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        It’d be more fitting to mandate every product to include its ecological price. Disposable vapes, for example, would disappear instantly.

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          Also a good idea. I’m trying to make it too expensive to manufacture the vapes, you’re making them too expensive to purchase.