This is the complement of the BifL (buy it for life) communites. Here we call out products (tech and non-tech) that:
* are designed to **fail early**
* feature **anti-repair** tactics (booby traps, self-destruction mechanisms, circuit boards submerged in silicon or plastic, denied documentation access)
* are designed to make you needlessly **dependant** on an unsustainable proprietary service (typically in the cloud), which risks:
① remote kill switches where a supplier pulls the plug on singled-out individuals (e.g. Amazon sabotaging service to your thermostat, doorbell, vaccuum, etc whenever you have a billing dispute),
② the company disappearing, or ③ the company deciding to decommission a server and boot everyone who depends on it.
Related communities:
* [!buyitforlife@slrpnk.net](https://slrpnk.net/c/buyitforlife) - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
* [!buyitforlife@discuss.tchncs.de](https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/buyitforlife) - Buy stuff that lasts a long time, if you must buy something
* [!fixing@slrpnk.net](https://slrpnk.net/c/fixing) - fix it, don’t replace it
* [!fixit@disflux.org](https://disflux.org/c/fixit)
* [!righttorepair@midwest.social](https://midwest.social/c/righttorepair) - exercise your right to fix stuff
* [!right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de](https://discuss.tchncs.de/c/right2repair) - exercise your right to fix stuff
* [!sustainabletech@lemmy.sdf.org](https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/sustainabletech) - sustainable technology
* [!permacomputing@lemmy.sdf.org](https://lemmy.sdf.org/c/permacomputing) - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
* [!permacomputing@slrpnk.net](https://slrpnk.net/c/permacomputing) - To discuss computing that’s not resource intensive
* [!zerowaste@slrpnk.net](https://slrpnk.net/c/zerowaste) - To discuss waste avoidance
* [!anticonsumption@sopuli.xyz](https://sopuli.xyz/c/anticonsumption)
* [!asshole_crappy_design@slrpnk.net](slrpnk.net/c/asshole_crappy_design)
* !crappydesign@discuss.tchncs.de
* [!forced_obsolescence@slrpnk.net](slrpnk.net/c/forced_obsolescence)