I’ve been doing a lot more electronics repair recently.

Second monitor wouldn’t power on/intermittently. Went on eBay and found someone selling the main board from a unit with a broken screen. $30 which saved me from buying a $170 new one.

Soldered a new switch onto a $50 mouse for like $5

Ordered a nice keyboard with hotswappable switches, had 4 broken solder joints once I put all the switches in. Not sure if that was me or bad QC but I didn’t want to wait 6+ weeks for round trip return to China so I opened it and was able to resolder all of them and it works perfectly.

The absolute irony of tech companies claiming to be for the environment while making plastic crap that is easier and cheaper to throw away than repair.

But sure, please do tell us Microsoft/Google/Apple how environmentally friendly you are because you no longer include a charger with the $1k hunk of plastic!

Compare that to bicycles. You’ll find a lot more people able to and actually taking a bicycle frame out of the garbage and repurposing it for a new bike or an exercise bike.