I get your point about throwaway, but something like my tv (LED) I've had for well over 10 years now, never a problem with it, so it is lasting. I'd actually like a new tv, because I can't get the software updates for the add on channels anymore (typical Samsung) - but fooked if I'm binning off a tv with fook all wrong with it. Cars also last 10 years+ now, because they don't rust anymore. The only difference that I see between what you are suggesting to now, is doing away with onboard computers or digital control panels and moving back to manual controlled panels and no onboard computer - so customers or engineers in/at your home can fix them without them being hooked up to an expensive bit of kit for diagnostics (or buy a new panel). Unless we have another war, I can't see us changing what we are currently doing.
I guess a lot of it is about the culture of buying new things. We saw during covid that when goods weren't moving and shops were closed. The economy was in a death spiral. This style of economy only works when people are buying things. So we are not encouraged to use things for their entire lifetime and fix them when they break. As you allude to, gone are the days of the Haynes manual and your dad fixing his car in the road at home. Most modern cars are just sealed units under the bonnet. With no end user option to fix anything.
I think a lot of it comes down to health and safety. I had an air water cooler that packed up recently, but all that was wrong with it, was the little tiny pump in it had packed up....so what did I do, bought a new one. In fairness to me, I don't even know if you can buy the pumps, but it's something that could be thought out at manufacture, because it's the only component that can go wrong....but H&S I expect. It's only strapped in with a cable tie to a thin platic pipe/tube. Btw I loved the Haynes manuals back in the day.
Morning. A Sunday highlight round here is being sat outside the coffee shop watching all the absolute states from hen parties wander back towards the train station. Safe trip back to Walsall hun. Don’t mention to your boyfriend all the cock you’ve had in your gob the last two nights.
I think apple recently have been made to include user replaceable parts as they were deliberately making sure that people had to buy new iPhones when they went wrong. Imo that principle should be applied (where safe) across the whole consumer industry. Down here we have 'care and repair' cafe things. Where people bring in their old electrical / mechanical equipment to a local cafe on a certain day and a bunch of mechanical enthusiasts try and fix them. It's a great concept, but then we are a bunch of smelly hippies down here lol
Exactly Most of these things are assembled by ordinary people on production lines in chinese factories It's not beyond the scope of most reasonably competent people who can use a screwdriver to fix these things if the replacement components were made available.
When I'm PM, people's ability to buy new electrical goods will be directly related to their ability to fix them. I have no idea how I will implement these polices, but Farage has no idea how to implement his either So all I need to do is go down the pub, drink a pint and pretend to be a man of the people. VOTE RANDY
Mortality comes calling when it is likely that your LED light bulbs are still going strong when your own spark has gone out ..
yea, my corsa is 10 years old and running fine (touch wood) and i've got this ****ty washing machine from the previous owners that is running fine after 8 years. Still got my Sony TV for 14 years ago. Waiting for it to go **** before i replace it
Doesn’t sound that bad. I normally give £20 to the Albanians for inside and out and then a seagull ****s all over it within a week anyway.
I never wash my car, genuinely don't, it's a lump of metal that gets me from a to b. But if I was to use a car wash, I would be expecting to pay at least a fiver and more. So you got that on the cheap, even if it don't feel like it.
