You expect me to deal with all the -5% waste sources in one article?
Please explain me: what is the minimum share of total energy use that any activity should have before someone is allowed to dedicate any attention to it?
None of the laptops was brought to landfill, I still have them at home, which is why I could photograph them all.
The malfunctioning charger was not the only problem. The Apple laptop had also gotten extremely slow. Because I was not aware of Linux (this is 15 years ago), I made the mistake of thinking that I needed a new laptop.
This is the whole problem: many people are not aware of Linux and its advantages, and thus keep falling in the trap that the hardware and software industries have set up for them.
Author here. That sentence will be deleted when the website regenerates, cause it doesn't seem to have the effect that I was aiming for. Thanks for pointing it out.
That said, I was impressed by the man's repair qualities. I asked him how he was going to repair my 2006 laptop without access to spare parts. He said he would just repair the fan by replacing the copper wire. Don't see that happening in an official repair shop. And he did it overnight.
Please explain me: what is the minimum share of total energy use that any activity should have before someone is allowed to dedicate any attention to it?