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Google says it can’t fix Pixel Watches, please just buy a new one | With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.::With no official repair program and no parts, broken Pixel Watches are just e-waste.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oooooh, that's a neat idea in light of the current EU legislation concerning the Right to Repair: Introduce a mandatory, highly visible, and standardized seal that all electronic devices have to display on the front of their box:

Repairable

or

Disposable

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then tax the shit out of disposable products please as we already waste way too much

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Do the same thing with phones that have non-replaceable batteries, too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I would also suggest mandatory price caps on disposable products, to incentivize the elimination of production of such devices.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It'd be more fitting to mandate every product to include its ecological price. Disposable vapes, for example, would disappear instantly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Also a good idea. I'm trying to make it too expensive to manufacture the vapes, you're making them too expensive to purchase.