not tagging something doesn't prove AI wasn't used

and less broken devices hitting landfill

That may not even be where the devices are most toxic to the environment :\

How about all the energy waste for manufacture of what are "engineered" as effectively disposable components & assemblies in numerous facilities?

Also scattered local emissions, not only at the factories and delivery ships & trucks, but consumers kick up all kinds of exhaust and waste just earning the money to participate in such a scheme. And way more so for short-lived products that are the least bit overpriced compared to how they could be from the same factory.

> Backseat industrial designing through legislation is not the answer.

You can still legislate parts availability and availability of docs.

You can legislate parts pairing or outright ban it

There is plenty that can be done, just need competent lawmakers

> You didn't say why this is a bad solution. The government mandates that cars get safer every year and fatalities are down 78% from the 1960s. Whenever government regulates things to benefit people, people tend to benefit.

That's widely incorrect. EU mandates some active systems (TC, ABS) and some basic level of physical protection, but majority of gains there have been driven by manufacturers trying to ace eachother in EuroNCAP rating

EU makes sure woefully unsafe car can't be sold, sure, but most of the progress here has been manufacturers, and non-car-related road safety improvements.

it's ridiculus that this is still the problem ,that's no 1 cause for dead cables for our helpdesk

Putting spring on the connector part rather than socket part means the easily replaceable part has wear item. Lighting is designed wrong here.

And our helpdesk had more broken lightning connectors than anything else in shop that's ~ 50/50 PC/Mac

I’m surprised to hear that it was such a common failure. I used plenty of lighting devices back in their hay day and plenty of USBC devices since they became common. I don’t tend to treat those devices gingerly and have far more issues with USBC than I ever did with Lightning, even accounting for the fact that lots of devices have USBC but only phones and mp3 players had lightning.

>As of late they are reducing environmental laws (the banning of ICE cars)

I think that particular one is because they realized their timeline is impossible to hit without utterly crippling EU

> weakening GDPR and DMA/DSA

There was always a lot of push for that, it is very much "yes/try later" on those legislations, we got the biggest traitor of the freedom out (UK) but there are still countries either interested, or incompetent enough to think the pushed ideas are a good thing

Well if you have seen how EU regulates domestic companies you would not wonder about that. There is no mercy.

US companies just hit that barrier more often historically because they got used to "lobby it and it goes away" attitude to law, and when it doesn't work we have harpy screeeching about EU using laws to tax US companies that do not want to abide to law in place where they are doing business

2x the cost of power is probably reasonable number to use

With the N100, the yearly cost depending on load and electricity price is probably between $20-$60.

Surely as a compromise the police dept can put cameras with audio livestreaming from every room in police dept ?

Or a compromise where defendants also have the same access to the camera feeds and pinky swear not to use the audio.

Still asymmetric as the police have the resources to comb the feeds and individuals do not

True, but irrelevant because nobody’s listening. All parties with access have pinky swears not to listen.

I am confident a gofundme would provide enough tokens for this work.