Previously posted in mildly interesting a year ago, doesn’t qualify anymore: https://lemmy.sdf.org/post/18714104
Probably disintegrating, I don’t know. But now I’ll finally have to buy new ones. Currently there’s 6 oozing points in total. 3 are minor, one is now inactive (the 2024 pimple), one I taped over, but it’s starting to overflow, and one near the jack is major.
I now cannot plug them in without getting sticky residue everywhere. Also the rubber on the outside is starting to crumble a bit.
I am a cheapskate, but this may be their end.
We live in a corrosive atmosphere.
When rubber and plastic run out of antioxidants they will disintegrate or turn in to a slime.
When using recycled plastics this is a real wild card. Levels can wary wildly from batch to batch, so even the manufacturers don’t really have a clue. Only occasionally tested minimum levels.
Pristine stuff can be used more for planned obsolesce.