I am a long time believer in that "if you can't fix it... you don't own it". But... I can't buy into all the manifesto demands. Not all code should be open code... and many parts, and pieces can't profitability be sold as home repairable. For some things... factory serviceable makes good sense.

Good a reason as any.

My extreme cheapness makes me heartily agree with the OP.

Well she is rather attractive.

"You can learn a lot by having a bicycle." -Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize-winning theoretical physicist)

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I'll thank you now, and if we can pull this off, it will be our grandkids who will thank us.

When I advocated for the clean air act (of 1970).... my ancient grand father took me aside and pointed out that never before in his long life had he breathed such clean air. Nor had he even imagined such clean drinking water. This was in the late sixty's.... and todays water and air is even cleaner today than back then.

Efforts at the base level of the environmental movement.... population control. Are on the very verge of a realization of those efforts. As the boomer generation dies off..... the planet will be over-resourced.

Out grandkids will be fine. The grandkids, of our grandkids will be fine. Long after our species become extinct (as ALL species do)... the planet will be just fine. Then the sun will go red dwarf..... well that's a whole different story. No amount of recycle/repair will fix that.

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Those observations apply here (US and most of The West), but not the rest of the growing industrial world.
It's not resources we're depleting, but species - not from natural extinction - and the greatest risk right now is to our oceans.
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