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Great article on e-waste<\/a>. One thing though:<\/p>\n

\u201cWho is to blame? Consumers certainly have a role to play in the increase of e-waste\u2014they\u2019re buying the goods, after all. But manufacturers have given people fewer and fewer viable ways to keep older electronics functioning effectively.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

Un-true. Weak. We update devices when they\u2019re perfectly fine, we don\u2019t have to. A few days ago I charged my 2011 dusty phone, it works like a charm. I just checked the battery, the phone is still on with 60% of juice. We lie to ourselves as much as manufacturers plan obsolescence, let\u2019s be honest.<\/p>\n

You still can text and tweet with a Blackberry and you will get the same results. Technologically speaking the world runs on old ass protocols and low-level things that haven\u2019t changed in decades. We do not need to update. We do not need to upgrade. 5 year old laptops are still powerful enough to do just fine with 99% of what people use computers for. Millions of computers less powerful than your little sister\u2019s phone are running our world without sweating. <\/p>\n

Yes, it will be a tiny bit better with the freshest silicon available but in the big scheme of things, it\u2019s not important. Outside the existential question about what happiness is (is it a new device every 12 months?), how much we waste is a bigger issue and again if you have some kids you\u2019d better curve your upgrade habits down a bit because at this rate well, I kind of feel like we are destroying everything right now at a wonderfully fast pace so\u2026 We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great article on e-waste. One thing though: \u201cWho is to blame? Consumers certainly have a role to play in the increase of e-waste\u2014they\u2019re buying the goods, after all. But manufacturers have given people fewer and fewer viable ways to keep older electronics functioning effectively.\u201d Un-true. Weak. We update devices when they\u2019re perfectly fine, we don\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2204\/revisions\/2205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}