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Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by sliken »

eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

Heh, I'd settle for phones without epoxied in batteries.

A good start would be an iron clad right to repair law, making it illegal to include non-user replaceable batteries in any consumer electronics, and requiring anything cloud enabled to opensource the server side if they close the service.

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by TeMPOraL »

eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

Agreed.

If anything, the virus just did a chaos monkey test on global supply chains. In the aftermath, it's going to be pretty apparent where the just-in-time approach caused most problems. I would really hope this would make some companies reevaluate their approach of cycling crap through consumers as fast as possible (e.g. fast fashion), but the cynic in me thinks they'll just chalk it up to a black swan and resume business as usual.

I wonder if money could be made (or if anyone is doing that already) by serving as a buffer/capacitor in the supply chain. I'm a layman in this space and don't even know what keywords to search to learn more; can anyone here tell me how people go about supply and price volatility reduction?

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by Qub3d »

sliken wrote: post #21
eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

Heh, I'd settle for phones without epoxied in batteries. A good start would be an iron clad right to repair law, making it illegal to include non-user replaceable batteries in any consumer electronics, and requiring anything cloud enabled to opensource the server side if they close the service.

There is hope: https://www.zdnet.com/article/eu-working-on-proposal-to-brin...

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by goldenkey »

dekken_ wrote: post #10
goldenkey wrote: post #5

It's serendipitous that the 2nd item on the front page is: "Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks" And the coronavirus is pretty much a case of "Evidence of massive-scale biological contagion through capitalistic networks" Capitalism is a greedy process, and the governments pretty much took what they could until they couldn't ignore it any more. I know that people need to work to eat,…

People are greedy. Capitalism is not alive.

It's as alive as any institution, nothing special. We live in a culture of capitalism. All institutions are people driven. That won't change their perpetuation or phenomena though, only new ways of thinking and revised institutions can. So why do you point out this distinction -- to say people are greedy, the system isn't? I'm sorry but the system is alive... It _IS_ people.

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by supercheetah »

eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

Patagonia is well known for repairing their stuff, and even helps customers sell their used clothes to others, but they're really expensive.

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by majewsky »

sliken wrote: post #21
eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

Heh, I'd settle for phones without epoxied in batteries. A good start would be an iron clad right to repair law, making it illegal to include non-user replaceable batteries in any consumer electronics, and requiring anything cloud enabled to opensource the server side if they close the service.

> requiring anything cloud enabled to opensource the server side if they close the service

That still won't help if a) the device talks to a fixed domain name or pins a particular TLS certificate or key, or if b) you get the code, but no instructions on how to build and run it.

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by im3w1l »

eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

This may sound stupid but one reason I like disposable things is because I, fairly or unfairly, associate expensive repairable things with "all work and no play". No you can't do this or you'll scratch it. Can't do that or you'll dent it. Oh, of course you have to oil it every day how else will it last? And don't forget to iron the sleeves.

Re: Is It Canceled Yet?

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Post by jbob2000 »

eitland wrote: post #12

If nothing else this should do quite a lot to reduce carbon emissions, and I'm only half joking here. Now if we could change fashion from fast fashion to focus on durability that would be an even bigger change. And it is not completely unrealistic: While I have no hard and fast rule to go by on how exactly this could turn out I do sense a huge opportunity for one or more smaller brands to more or less utterly disrupt…

This doesn't solve anything if the parts you replace are then thrown in the landfill. All you've done is spent a lot of resources and energy to turn around and throw stuff away anyways.
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