This is insane... we should not be throwing away good tech because of planned obsolescence and relying on groveling to customer service to use tech that we bought...
The save-the-environment ship has sailed. It’s not even a point worth engaging with. You really think that if every kindle ever made would magically last forever that the environment still wouldn’t be fucked beyond belief?
We can all of us individually, and all of us collectively, do better.
You are quite literally the problem.
I don’t eat meat, I live in a small apartment, I don’t drive, I don’t fly, I don’t have kids. I buy crap I don’t need though.
I’ll put myself up against nearly anyone else in the developed world as far as carbon footprint goes.
We, as consumers, have a right to be mad about this stuff... this is why we have the Consumer Protection Bureau and the Federal Trade Commission.
Yea this is dumb advice. Are you a stock holder?
Yes you are. This is how it worked for nearly all of history. Its the entire point of the right to repair movement, to prevent companies from this scummy model of demanding a subscription for everything and trying to stop people from owning anything. Buying a Kindle over and over again benefits no one but Amazon and their stock holders. Its even more disgusting that the OP's Kindle broke because Amazon broke it on purpose.
I don’t see you saying this about how we used to die if we got an infection.
Times change.
> Buying a Kindle over and over again benefits no one but Amazon and their stock holders.
It benefits me! The kindle I bought last year is many times more enjoyable to use than the one I bought a decade ago.
I know you're trolling, but in what way? Ebooks were always light, the only meaningful innovations have been sort of having color, getting bigger, and a stylus. Those are legitimate reasons to upgrades, everything else is software that could be updated.
>Times change.
People being in abusive relationships and thinking its good for them have existed forever. See how I didn't bring up something completely irrelevant to the conversation to make a point.
No, I am not trolling.
It is faster to turn pages, it has more storage, the screen is better, it has a light. If you want to include the scribe, it has a much bigger screen and I can write/draw on it.
It’s like your computer or phone. Would you really be thrilled to be using the 2015 version of those things today?