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Gentle reminder that you should not use this as an excuse to buy things imo. I see too many people just replacing perfectly good items. It's much better if there's an anti consumption stance (use what you have, repair, buy used, buy, local, buy regionally) in that order.
Exactly, if you already have American stuff that doesn't depend on them making still money on it right now, no need to replace it ASAP. Buy when it breaks or need to change, don't buy American again.
As an addition: tech from American companies should be replaced. You can't trust it. Android (as it exists in the Google ecosystem) is spyware, same with iOS. If you can't replace those operating systems with your own (which is usually possible but complicated) then it's really not a good idea to have them in your home.
Buy second hand. Back market is a good source, or now vinted have electronics too and you can pay a small fee to have items verified before they're sent to you, so you can trust they're as described.
Yeah my response to all the news telling me that "cost will be passed on to consumers" is to just not be a consumer, especially where I don't have to be. "consuming" implies that you're destroying the item in the process, and mostly we end up doing exactly that. It's understandable for food, but vehicles? appliances? technology? We need to get way better about not just finding ways to sustain, repair and reuse older things, but also we need to be holding companies to account when they make that difficult (and they do!)
Right to repair is a step in the right direction, but we also need the right to easily repair, we need the right to have items that are not designed to fail in the first place, that do not have value engineered weak points and planned obsolescence and this culture of making things so cheap they are disposable. We are encouraged to do this by companies that do not have our best interests at heart, only their own profits. And even if we like it this way, we need to stop, it's unhealthy for us, for the planet, and for the future.
Yeah. I've seen so many posts of people trying to ditch their phones or just electronics in general to buy a new, EUROPEAN product. There are better ways to spend money and do some good.
Oh yes definitely!
I just posted about it: https://lemmy.world/post/26730824