definitely, that's what I meant too! I would not expect every consumer to learn how to do this, I would expect, in a sane world, you would take it to a shop or back to the producer.
It's about the design of the devices, they need to be designed to be repairable affordably. There should be tax or subsidy bonuses/penalties for this.
(The simplest effective way would be to require all manufacturers to take broken or obsolete electronics back at no charge, responsible for repair, recycling, or disposal themselves, so that there is incentive to reduce costs of such).
Is it more important to design the device to be repairable affordably or to be affordably in the first place? At $40 a pop it's hard to justify any repair on those RPis. There are much more valuable devices out there which are less easily repairable.
More important to what or whom? The immediate convenience of the consumer may have a different "more important" than the sustainability of human life on this planet as we drown in discarded $40 electronics and the byproducts of their production, that were "not important" to make non-disposable because it was so convenient to dispose of them.
It's about the design of the devices, they need to be designed to be repairable affordably. There should be tax or subsidy bonuses/penalties for this.
(The simplest effective way would be to require all manufacturers to take broken or obsolete electronics back at no charge, responsible for repair, recycling, or disposal themselves, so that there is incentive to reduce costs of such).