> Are you old enough to remember the early 2000s when every […]

One does not have to be that old enough.

Look no further than personal care and small home appliances (electric shavers – yes, Braun, I am looking at you; electric toothbrushes – and you, too, Philips! As well as household and kitchen appliances) the vast majority of which still come with incompatible proprietary chargers that are so hard, expensive or inconvenient (usually all of the above) to procure to replace that the entire gadget oftentimes gets disposed of because of the failed charger.

Governments ought to crack down on those ones as well, and crack down real, real hard.