Repair it or replace it?
Most of us face that choice at least a few times a year.
When a home appliance, a mobile phone or another piece of technology stops working, we may not know how to repair it ourselves.
We may think it’s not worth paying someone else to fix it.
So, we throw it out and buy a new one.
Many of the companies prefer the “throw it out model” because they can sell us a new one.
But there’s a growing number of do-it-yourself organizations and advocates that are helping de-mystify repair work and reduce the amount of fixable stuff that gets thrown away.
A couple of months ago, the battery on my 2014 Macbook started to die.
Charges became shorter by the hour and a “Replace battery NOW” message flashed.
A local Mac repair shop said it would cost $150 for them to install a new battery and get rid of the old one.
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