[winternett]

With all the talk about environmental conservation that we do, it's really important to talk about the damage companies are doing to our planet by making unreliable products in hopes of encouraging wasteful consumerism. I have bought dell computers for years, and while they are reliable for the most part, each model I've bought has has serious flaws that make most people dispose of the entire computer after 1-3 years of use. So many companies (especially cell phone makers) now put out models that fail or slow down after 1-3 years and this is creating a horrible amount of waste that contributes heavily to destruction of the environment in production and disposal, water pollution, and many other negative impacts of all of us financially.

Device failure often means lost photos, work, and vital documents, we rarely hear about the stories of this now because it's marked unpopular and downvoted by online algos. It's 2022 and we still don't have failproof hard drives, even though SSDs have been in place for many years now. Planned obsolescence, and product unreliability needs to have more serious consequences for large companies, especially the ones that have R&D units, it's really an ugly lie for modern devices to fail and have flaws as much as they do.