The auto industry plans to do this with their product someday.
Won’t start?
Buy a new one.
True story, only an hour old.
I was just out mowing my lawn with my ancient Craftsman riding mower. Ancient 5-HP B&S engine. Halfway done, out in the middle of the field, suddenly the engine quit, like it had run out of gas, but there was plenty in the tank.
I mutter a curse at Fate, and wonder what just broke. Parts for this antique are mostly unavailable other than maybe eBay... and it's Sunday, and the weather forecast says it's gonna rain like crazy in about 8 hours. Can't let the mower just sit there...
So I lift the bonnet, take off the carb/air-filter cover, remove the air filter, okay, carb looks okay from the top end. Throttle and choke/butterflies all look fine, no broken linkages or rusted-out springs...
Follow the fuel line from the gas tank to the carb, and lo-and-behold the fuel filter looks like a cocoon. Okay, open the spring clips and separate it from the fuel line, open it up, sure enough a piece of crud stuck in it. Lift the crud out, reassemble the filter, put everything back together, and the engine kicks off and runs like a champ.
I finish mowing without further incident.
And return to my FReep thread about a non-unser-repairable laptop. Hmmmmm-mm...