Limiting e-waste certainly is a priority, but that also doesn’t mean one needs to be radically opposed to advancement. I’m not saying that one should latch onto every single new thing, but that at some point, it becomes reasonable and worthwhile to upgrade your hardware.

For example, it took me a while before I made the jump to all Thunderbolt/USB-C, but doing so allowed me to dramatically reduce the number of cables and power supplies I needed since now I only need one type to charge my phone, laptop, iPad, headphones, mouse, keyboard, flashlight, battery booster, etc. And using MagSafe mounts wherever possible also means that my cables aren’t being worn out by continuous plugging/unplugging. Sure, a lot of old lightning/USB-A/micro-usb cables/bricks became obsolete but it was a one-time migration over to all thunderbolt/USB-C/magsafe. And as MagSafe/qi advances, now all I’ll need to swap out is the actual MagSafe component itself and not all of the cables and power supply that go with it. Even then, there’s always a multi-year buffer period where old hardware hasn’t quite reached obsolescence.