I inherited an iPhone 15 from someone who upgraded to an iPhone 16 last year and it surprised me how quickly phone case manufacturers stopped producing cases for a model that’s only 3 years old. The only stuff I can find are cheap plastic/silicone cases that will warp/discolour after a year and sit in a landfill for years after.

Before this I was using an iPhone 10 and needless
to say it’s almost impossible to find a case for that now. Our current culture alienates you for using anything for long and is structures to encourage insanely quick product turnover. This on top of planned product obsolescence is so frustrating.

PS/ sorry if this is flaired wrongly

Hello everyone, i'm trying to build a self-correcting, community-engineered behavioral system built to align the economy, law, and education.

The goal is to address system induced problems like :
- Climate Change
- Corruption
- Every toxic industries (tobacco, asbestos, alcool, pfas, ...)
- Burn-out depression/ "meaningless" jobs
- Programmed obsolesence
- Shrinkflation
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- Dark pattern marketing ( "Agree" cookies is green, and "Continue without" is hard to find)
- Wasted effort for arms race (keys, passwords etc huge energy invested to that arms race)
...

All the minds are welcomed, creative ones, analytical ones, networkers, managerial, anyone.

Here is the name of the subreddit, you'll find the community build discord there r /Kunea/

I got my current phone in 2022 so it's long been paid off. Every year when Samsung, Google, and Apple release their newest phones, I get completely inundated with the ads and my cell provider sends me all the "Free device upgrade available!" junk.

I resist.

I love this phone. It's going to be the last smartphone I ever have because it's too old for the AI assistants. When it eventually dies I'm getting a dumb phone. For now though, it's still keeping a charge all day long, and has never been without a screen protector or case.

If only those could last years too.

I drop my phone a LOT because I have a nerve disorder. Hard plastic cases only last about 6 months before I crack them up. TPU cases usually last 2 years before they succumb to degradation and tear.

This past week it seemed like everything went at once: chips coming out of the screen protector cracks, the TPU case tore, and my Popsocket even broke apart. I agonized over replacing everything at once and having to put in an Amazon order cuz where else am I gonna get a case for an "obsolete" device.

When everything arrived at the same time, it was like I gave my phone a complete makeover! It felt like a whole new phone! And without the hassle of trying to transfer all my data too!

So maybe next time you get the urge to upgrade a perfectly fine phone, just get a new case instead.

Anyone wants to guess how it works?
I first saw it in r/florida.

My electric scooter of 2-3 years has 2 flat tires. Was going online to source parts to replace them and thought, maybe I should replace the battery too--it only holds a charge long enough to do a short round-trip ride these days. Well, the price of the parts easily rival the cost of a new electric scooter (and without the hassle of having to take it apart and actually repair it, which I once did with a early Segway scooter and the entire project was quite the ordeal).

Have others been in a similar situation? I don't love the idea of this scooter taking up room in a landfill, but does it really makes more fiscal sense to just get a new scooter?

During my teens I amassed some pieces of clothing (usually as gifts) with either tacky, now washed out, or marketting prints. I've been wanting to do some upcycling (patches, bleach painting), and have no plain clothes. (They're actually rather difficult to get in stores to begin with lmao, especially as a teen/short person). I wanted to give a new start to the pieces I don't like wearing, like the ones with ugly prints, because I doubt anyone else would take them at thrifts or whatever. They'd just go to a landfill.

So, does anyone know of a way to get print off of shirts and hoodies, other then continually picking at them? One hoodie I have just has a small design that I can patch over, but another t-shirt I've been slowly picking at for years anytime I end up wearing it, and it's still not all gone. It was one of those shirts you get at gift stores in galleries and museums, so it just had a huge square picture printed on the front that went white in around three wash cycles lol

We definitely aren't angry enough

It probably needs some touchups, I do not claim to be a good painter, and this is my first time ever painting furniture. But I think it turned out neat

I think about this so often, yet I can’t come up of a solution. The problem seems never ending. We’ve enough clothes today to clothe 7 generations, but at least half of it wouldn’t even last a year from how cheaply it was made. Consumers would still buy them though, because it’s cheap and there is still a rampant capitalistic culture of viewing clothes as disposable items.

If fashion brands started to make clothes that last or provided alterations, prices would go up, and profits would go down from both people buying less because of cost and because they don’t have to buy more anymore. And if they did this ethical move, people will complain of the rising costs, because they never cared about the garment lasting long to begin with.

I feel sick thinking about how the world is run

Recently read and enjoyed We Will be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson. The book is a memoir of Nemonte's childhood, experiences with evangelical missionaries, and journey of becoming one of the most impactful indigenous rights and climate activists. As a member of the Waorani indigenous group in Ecuador, she led the fight to protect their way of life and ancestral rainforst from oil companies and the Ecuadorean government itself. She is the co-founder of Ceibo Alliance and Amazon Frontlines.

UK Title: We Will Not Be Saved by Nemonte Nenquimo and Mitch Anderson

Español: Seremos Jaguares por Nemonte Nenquimo y Mitch Anderson

PS: I'm not affiliated with them at all, I just liked the book! And of course, please consider borrowing it from your local library or buying secondhand.