Excellent! There's no excuse these days for having culturally significant artifacts in a museum. Photograph them, 3D scan them, CT scan them, recreate them in VR then give them back. Assuming that you can get consent to do all the above of course. I'm no expert, maybe there are other ways to go about this but basically keep whatever version of the thing you can and give back the original.
Mishmash2000
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I think that's one of two separate ways to solve some of the problems. Yes, there's long lasting, industrial style, built like a tank and made to last that costs a lot as one solution. But there could also be cheaper products that wouldn't last as long except that when something does go wrong you could buy a fairly cheap replacement part and swap it out using readily available tools. Both solutions can and should exist and would serve different markets.
You don't have to actually be able to do it yourself for it to be beneficial. If I am, lets just say for the sake of argument, completely hopeless and don't know my quick web search pentalobes from my tri-points I should still be able to take a thing to a repair shop and they should be able to use standard tools to open it and use standard or at least affordable parts to repair it. We're not talking about "changing oil is hard" because you can take your car to a workshop and they'll do it for you. We're talking about you can't change the oil, you have to throw the car away and buy a new one.
I see now that France have something like this already. It's fairly new and it's up to the manufacturers to say how well they score on each criteria but it's a start! French repair index
Yes, I love what they do but I think it'd have to be independant / not tied to commercial interests to be adopted widely.
Could there be a star rating on products like with the energy star rating? Start with 5 stars and for every egregious anti user repair sin take a star off? Would probably go into negative stars? Not user openable with standard tools, dock a star. Glued not screwed together, dock a star. Uses proprietory parts when standard alternatives are readily available, another star gone. Non user replacable battery, you're now knocking on the door of a big fat ZERO stars!
I love everything about this! Except there's no love for the Acorn Archimedes, the original ARM computer?! Or the BBC Micro?? Travesty!
They do, but only in certain categories. You can't just own "X" for everything from media to music, technology, fashion etc. You stake your claim for example as Microsoft have done on X when relating to videogames or financial services and so a competitor can't start a competing videogame company called "X" or "X Games" etc. Meta have trademarked the use of "X" with regards to social media so this will get interesting :-)
These types of laws are sick and barbaric and not indicitive of a civilised society! These woman should not have to revisit their trauma but they are fucking made to by a sick group of degenerates who make laws that the majority simply don't want!
They have this service in Timaru, New Zealand which is a relatively low density town / city of less than 30,000 people. They use vans / minibusses and use the same software to dynamically plan the best route to pick up the passengers that book via the app (or by phone) and drop them to their destinations in the most efficient way possible. You may have to walk to the end of your street for pickup. If there are ever times when there aren't any passengers the van isn't trundling endlessly around in circles doing nothing but waste fuel. I assume it works best in situations / areas where there aren't that many public transport users and on high volume routes they can retain traditional fixed lines alongside the on-demand solution with people using whichever service works best for them. Timaru ended the last fixed route service early this year and have gone full on-demand only.
This is such a good episode! All the time I'm seeing new ways that cars cause catastrophic damage to us and our world and this just added a host of new things to the list and they're easy to understand and convey thus providing clear counterpoints to people trying to justify increased car usage and infrastructure.
Yikes, after reading that thread in its entirety I unsubbed from their channel. They will have to do a LOT to get me to ever come back. I'm not sure if that's even possible?