Unsustainable and short-lived goods

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This is the complement of the BifL (buy it for life) communites. Here we call out products (tech and non-tech) that:

• are designed to fail early
• feature anti-repair tactics (booby traps, self-destruction mechanisms, circuit boards submerged in silicon or plastic, denied documentation access)
• are designed to make you needlessly dependant on an unsustainable proprietary service (typically in the cloud), which risks:
  ① remote kill switches where a supplier pulls the plug on singled-out individuals (e.g. Amazon sabotaging service to your thermostat, doorbell, vaccuum, etc whenever you have a billing dispute),
  ② the company disappearing, or ③ the company deciding to decommission a server and boot everyone who depends on it.

Related communities:

• !buyitforlife@slrpnk.net - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
• !buyitforlife@discuss.tchncs.de - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
• !fixing@slrpnk.net - fix it, don’t replace it
• !fixit@disflux.org
• !righttorepair@midwest.social - exercise your right to fix stuff
• !right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de - exercise your right to fix stuff
• !sustainabletech@lemmy.sdf.org - sustainable technology
• !permacomputing@lemmy.sdf.org - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
• !permacomputing@slrpnk.net - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
• !zerowaste@slrpnk.net - To discuss waste avoidance
• !anticonsumption@sopuli.xyz
• !asshole_crappy_design@slrpnk.net
• !crappydesign@discuss.tchncs.de
• !forced_obsolescence@slrpnk.net

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