another one bites the dust

I posted here about the sudden bricking of a beloved iPad
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/822003.html

Then a post including my worries about the piles of defunct laptop/notebook items in my house
https://lauradi7dw.dreamwidth.org/870177.html

I had an additional old iPad that stayed next to the rowing machine, used mostly to provide music while rowing and the Concept2 site to log what I rowed. It was made in 2014, rehabbed by the Backmarket company much more recently, and worked fine for those purposes as recently as Wednesday. On Thursday it wouldn't turn on at all. Friday the closest Apple store told me the wait when I showed up would be almost three hours, so I gave up that day and made an appointment for yesterday at a different mall. The tech person's conclusion was that there is nothing to be done about it, at least not through Apple. They don't make parts that old, and even if they did, it's hard to repair iPads because there are no screws - the outsides are soldered into place.
OK then, more electronic waste in the house, just as this book was featured on the radio this morning
https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/alexander-clapp/waste-wars/
I knew much of it, but couldn't have necessarily told you that most of the toxins currently go to Ghana (certainly not all). On the previous post, Matilda suggested taking the whole drawer full to Apple for recycling, but why should I dump stuff elsewhere? Would it be more responsible to make a concrete vault and bury them in the backyard? But concrete is an environmental disaster as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_impact_of_concrete

Have a photo of me in a towel hat (called a lamb's ear hat in Korean saunas)



I have noticed in a lot of recent photos of me that my left eye seems to have more droopy skin around it, but in this selfie it is not too bad.