The one that really fucking gets to me is laptop charger cables. Mine inevitably died yesterday, after a sad life of having to bend 90 degrees to accommodate the ridiculous straight pin that Dell saw fit to give it. Of course the cable is attached to the power supply, so you can't just swap out this cheap and unnecessarily fragile component. And of course they've generic-proofed the laptop so I can only buy a branded replacement.
Fuck that shit. I just melted the plastic off the pin with a heat gun and re-soldered it lower down. The thought of all the expensive power supplies that never needed to be sold, and all the perfectly good ones with busted cables cluttering up drawers in homes and winding up in landfills makes me so angry.
The one that really fucking gets to me is laptop charger cables. Mine inevitably died yesterday, after a sad life of having to bend 90 degrees to accommodate the ridiculous straight pin that Dell saw fit to give it. Of course the cable is attached to the power supply, so you can't just swap out this cheap and unnecessarily fragile component. And of course they've generic-proofed the laptop so I can only buy a branded replacement.
Fuck that shit. I just melted the plastic off the pin with a heat gun and re-soldered it lower down. The thought of all the expensive power supplies that never needed to be sold, and all the perfectly good ones with busted cables cluttering up drawers in homes and winding up in landfills makes me so angry.