@ascentale @InkySchwartz @bikenite That being said, there's also a reason why I own a $1200 ebike with a pretty generic Chinese motor and controller, and not a $7000 ebike with a proprietary Bosch or Yamaha system.
If my #ebike becomes effectively #ewaste, it's a lot less of a loss to me. I am one month shy of 3 years riding this bike, have not really noticed any battery degradation, yet, but I ride infrequently and for short distances, mostly.
@LaChasseuse @steverocky @fionaorkneynews Extra, extra ban on vaping. Air pollution and toxic #ewaste 
#electronics #hardware #EWaste
"Those well-meaning agitators at the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) are back, this time with an interactive "Electronic Waste Graveyard" cataloging a range of devices tossed aside after software support expires or cloud connections flatline.... its latest effort is an online 'rogues' gallery' showcasing more than 100 tech products that no longer function properly or were effectively junked after manufacturers ended support."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/11/electronic_waste_graveyard/
The Register: PIRG’s ‘Electronic Waste Graveyard’ lists 100+ gadgets dumped after support vanished . “Those well-meaning agitators at the Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) are back, this time with an interactive “Electronic Waste Graveyard” cataloging a range of devices tossed aside after software support expires or cloud connections flatline…. its latest effort is an online ‘rogues’ […]
Vanochtend op Radio 1 een item over het Linux Repair Café dat vandaag in Amsterdam wordt gehouden. Omdat Microsoft stopt met het ondersteunen van Windows 10 en ze Windows 11 niet geschikt maken voor veel wat oudere, maar nog prima computers, wil het Repair Café helpen met overstappen op Linux. Je kunt vanmiddag en de komende twee zaterdagen terecht in de bibliotheek aan het Javaplein:
https://www.repaircafe.org/linux-repair-cafe/
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The hype I am seeing for "refurbished" or "renewed" hard drives for NAS usage seems like false economy to me. These drives need to be a heaps cheaper than they are to be the bargain that youtubers and tech blogs are saying they are. Some of these drives have in excess of 10,000 power on hours. It's been spinning for over a year and you're paying 80% of the original price?!
No thanks
Think e-waste is just cheap, no-name junk? Think again. Major brands like Google, Amazon & Microsoft are killing support for devices in under 2 years—piling on 130+ million pounds of trash. @securesilient is working to fix.
#RightToRepair #EWaste #EOL
https://pirg.org/edfund/resources/electronic-waste-graveyard/
This pocket-sized PC is made from an old smartphone motherboard
You often hear that the phone in your pocket has more processing power than the room-sized computers that NASA used to help send astronauts to the moon. But modern smartphones also have relatively limited lifespans – while some device makers are doing a better job of offering long-term support, it’s often cheaper or easier to replace an old phone than it is to fix a cracked display or replace […]
#citronics #devKit #devkit #ewaste #fairphone #fairphone2 #recycling #sbc #upcycling
Read more: https://liliputing.com/this-pocket-sized-pc-is-made-from-an-old-smartphone-motherboard/
I'm convinced that the real innovation and the creativity necessary to survive the impending catastrophe will never come from places like Silicon Valley. It doesn't shine and it doesn't have world design conferences. It will come instead from the alleys of marketplaces, mostly (but not only) in the Global South.
India's repair and engineering culture, and Frankestein laptops
via @theverge
https://www.theverge.com/tech/639126/india-frankenstein-laptops
@dajb been installing Mint in various #obsolete machines (Surface Go, 2012 MBP). Maybe a stereotype … maybe the future? #PostGrowth ? #eWaste revival? Also writing more experiments as desktop apps not webpages too.
This is terrible in so many ways, it's a huge waste of resources.
If you are an individual, there is a huge worldwide community that is happy to help you upgrade to #Linux and #LibreOffice
If you would like some help, HMU.
If you are an organisation, I do contact work helping companies migrate from M$ products to free alternatives. There is no reason to continue paying the M$ tax.
Avoid #eWaste!
https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/04/03/microsoft-doc-says-recycle-windows-10-pcs-if-they-cant-upgrade-to-windows-11/
Dear fediverse,
what is the best resource of do's and dont's for setting up a #repaircafe ?
I guess not what I do with my own repairs : 40 boxes with half broken stuff from other people, waiting to find that single crucial part, schematic, or plans to fix it with a 3d printed part (to be designed and printed), actually converting my place in a #dumpsterdive without divers.
Neither desoldering all weird parts because weird parts are difficult to get...
#electronics #ewaste (...)
East Africa: Kabogo Warns of Looming E-Waste Crisis in East Africa: [Capital FM] Nairobi -- ICT Cabinet Secretary William Kabogo has raised alarm over the growing threat of electronic waste in East Africa, calling for urgent measures to tackle what he termed a ticking environmental time bomb. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJkqqz #EWaste #EastAfrica #EnvironmentalCrisis #Sustainability #Recycling
How to recycle your stuff in the UK
https://it-recycle.uk/
#Recycling #UK #eWaste #Waste #SolarPunkSunday
How to recycle your electrical stuff in the UK
https://it-recycle.uk/how-to-recycle-your-electricals-in-the-uk-a-complete-guide/
#Recycling #UK #eWaste #Waste #SolarPunkSunday
Post 3: the final stage of the dead thrift store #gameboy advance revival and #repair #diy #retrogames #retrogaming #gba #gameboyadvance #nostalgia #nostalgiagaming #retro #90s #nintendo #3ds #sega #atari #hdmiout #recycle #ewaste
There is going to be a lot of e-waste after Windows 10 support ends, this October 2025.
The world truly needs a "dumb pipe" Linux distro. A distro made for newbies, that your Grandma with no technical skills could install, use, install 3rd party apps, change settings, and keep updated without touching the terminal.
#eWaste #Windows10 #Windows #Linux #Foss #OpenSource
The US #RightToRepair movement is growing as wins stack up
Story by Iris Kim, March 9, 2025
"Peter Mui, founder of #Fixit Clinic, describes his repair work as a hobby that’s gotten out of control. What started as a tool share in Berkeley, California, has turned into a volunteer-run group that has organized more than 1,300 repair events around the country. At Fixit Clinics, people can bring any broken household item — from worn socks to broken toasters — and learn how to make them functional again.
"'During the last few years, interest in repair has exploded,' Mui said.
"He attributes this cultural shift to a growing awareness about the #environmental impact of #EWaste, as well as a raft of 'right-to-repair' laws passing across the U.S. Historically, manufacturers of computers, cars and tractors have cited copyright law to claim exclusive repair rights, allowing them to sue independent repair companies while preventing consumers from finding lower-cost alternatives.
"But in six states — California, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, New York and Oregon — #RightToRepair laws have been passed to protect consumers’ ability to repair or modify their products instead of having to go through the manufacturer. Oregon’s law is the most recent, passing in 2024 and going into effect in January.
"As of March, right-to-repair bills had been introduced in all 50 states, and 20 state legislatures are currently debating such bills.
"The laws take different forms. Some narrowly target automobile manufacturers while others are broad enough to cover all consumer electronics. Though bipartisan federal legislation for automobile repair stalled last year, it was reintroduced last month."
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-right-to-repair-movement-is-growing-as-wins-stack-up/ar-AA1Ay4hH
#PlannedObsolescence #SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafes #ReuseRepairRecycle
Overall it sounds like a decent idea based on my understanding, but getting it into practical and working form will take a lot of time and tireless effort.
And it's an effort which many commercial corporations would not want to take in the next several decades. If they make this method of extraction from waste mandatory or required by law, say in either France or the United States; then business would be compelled to start treating their #ewaste with this form of processing through extraction. However, here in the States it is a well known fact that publicly-owned corporations use well-paid lobbyists to heavily resist laws such as what I described. And the Supreme Court has more or less forced federal agencies' interpretations of sensitive government matters that could best be handled by cabinet-level decision-making up to the lower, federal courts to interpret instead. The current Supreme Court with its four or five Federalist Society judicial hacks is certainly more pro-corporate than any previous high court in history(?) They did this to skirt the rule of law. The black-robed ideologues figured out how to "have it both ways." They let us get by on less regulations and at the same time they screw us over the degraded environment.
Look who is the boss and founder of the biggest electric car company in the world. The richest, smarmiest and shittiest-looking and also most poorly dressed person alive -- who has had thirteen relationships with women and fathered children with every one of them: Elon Musk. That guy does not give a shit about anything even closely resembling progressivism or moderation! He is a cancer on the whole economic system.
This is where everyone in the Western hemisphere is getting discouraged. We are the business innovators and inventors, more so in certain ways than the Eastern hemisphere. And yet, aren't Asians or easterners the ones who came up with this battery breakthrough? Does anybody know or can anybody even fathom or try to plan what's going to happen next, after this? If the Chinese government and their military buy the rights to this technology, we're done for. This project won't go anywhere if that happens.
Are you telling me that that billionaire "Buddy Boy" to Donald Trump, libertarian, and all-around bigot is going to champion something such as this?
No way! Sorry to rain on your parade. America has a lot of problems right now.
And I don't think any research group in China is going to help the Earth at all. They are communists. Their culture is, pardon me, just BACKWARDS. They tried independence a long time ago in 1989 and several thousand students at Chinese universities were murdered, or kidnapped and disappeared by the authorities.
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