alt Hacker NewsI mean, do you also consider it "authoritarian" to have e.g. regulations on vehicle exhaust? Should the government have an environmental protection agency? Who gets to be on it? What about my right to insulate my house with asbestos and paint it with lead?
And who's talking about banning private import of laptops? You do know that you can regulate national sales without controlling absolutely everything right? Whoever bothers to travel to a different country just to buy a worse laptop should be allowed to do so, it's whatever.
Regarding "recycling", that's all a show in order to seem more environmentally friendly with very little actual impact. You can look up how electronics "recycling" usually works in practice, which normally entails sending the waste to third world countries to have some precious metals extracted using dangerous and not exactly environmentally friendly processes.
> mean, do you also consider it "authoritarian" to have e.g. regulations on vehicle exhaust?
In the US this is why so many wagons have turned into SUVs which have more lax fuel efficiency requirements. They find ways around the regulations.
All Apple laptops have hard soldered SSDs. SSDs have to go bad eventually.
Should the government force apple to only sell laptops with replaceable ssds ?
The most environmentally friendly laptop is a used Thinkpad. But I respect others have a right to buy what they want.
Back to the original point, the laptop isn’t even hard to fix. OP just didn’t do there research.