One of the waste issues that bugs me to no end is the current trend of putting battery packs in EVERYTHING (that you charge via USB cable) instead of plain old rechargeable AA batteries.
Batteries are special waste, not electronic waste, they get collected separately... yet in my wireless gaming Headset, in my wireless gaming Mouse, in most of my Gamepads, and of course Smartphone and Tablets anyway... the integrated batteries are EVERYWHERE by now and you can't tell me that there is some army of little dwarfs taking all the tech products apart to sort out the battery packs, most of that stuff ends up in a landfill in some 3rd world country somewhere.
Also a good percentage of the products will just be thrown in the trash because the battery finally died, or would you bother replacing the battery pack in a Corsair VOID headset?
And i hate it much more when i need to connect my Wireless Mouse to a USB cable for hours instead of just grabbing an AA from the box, clack, clack and its full again.
That trend is getting worse.
I would love if some Reviewers like LTT would start to shit on this trend in the tech industry.
For me it is probably worse, because i got a BUNCH (more than 10) of these Retro style gamepads from 8bitdo and Retro-bit and they all do this as well .
sorry for going full off topic here but... this bugs me and it bugs me even more that no one seems to give a crap.
Or is this problem only in my head and they got it all figured out already and nobody told me?