From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2024-12-02 18:30, Ralph Mowery wrote:   
   > In article <4950251152.1f610978@uninhabited.net>, roger@hayter.org   
   > says...   
   >>   
   >> This is wildly untrue. What makes things "throw away" is that we can make   
   them   
   >> so cheaply that the labour to repair them is too expensive for it to be   
   >> economic. But modern electronic goods are orders of magnitude more reliable   
   >> than the consumer electronic goods of yesteryear, so the problem is *not*   
   the   
   >> quality of the goods.   
   >>   
   >> What needs investing in the safe recycling of electronic parts, and I would   
   >> suggest that both consumers and manufacturers should be responsible for   
   this.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Just like the tire pressure monitors.  Lots of labor just to replace   
   > them.  I just do without on my cars when they fail.   
      
   I disagree. I had a puncture during a highway trip a month ago, and the   
   monitor told me about it. I would have not noticed myself and would have   
   damaged the rubber.   
      
   First puncture in 40 years.   
      
      
      
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