Mitigations:

- Don't buy something if you can avoid it

- DIY alternatives where feasible

- Buy and sell used on secondary markets before buying new

- R2R, soldering iron, DMM, Leatherman, spudgers, and rotary drill

- Electrolytic capacitors need to be replaced if/when they wear out: dry, bulge, or burst

- Strategic hoarding

- Avoid electronically bricked throw-aways

- Sell or give away rather than throwaway

- Try selling for parts

- If no one wants something for parts, dismantle into recyclables and genuine e-waste



Specific examples:

- 3 Tile Stickers are getting new batteries. https://youtu.be/Lg1DRa_uOjg

- Refilled & rechipped toner cartridges for a used HP M402dw printer. It traveled less than 200 miles / 320 km.

- Rechargeable batteries > alkaline.

- UPSes (SMX1500 and SMX2000) are used enterprise ones with additional packs. Batteries get recycled every 9 years from local domestic suppliers.

- T480 laptop: 4 TiB SSD, 64 GiB of RAM, i7-6650U swap, magnesium top case swap, biometric swap, Wi-Fi 6E (AX210), eGPU with an RTX 3060 Ti (fixed use), and 4 72 Wh external batteries with an external charger.

- Anyone want to buy any of 3 UniFi U6-Mesh APs? ;]