In order to mitigate the most severe consequences of climate change and other challenges related to environmental sustainability, Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been promoted as important tools for among other things dematerialization and optimization of industrial processes. Still, the ICT industry also contributes greatly to environmental unsustainability, not least since ICT products tend to have a short useful life and are difficult to properly repair and recycle due to their complex material compositions, and the interplay between physical and digital properties within these products. This mismanagement of obsolete devices has resulted in e-waste being one of the fastest growing streams of waste globally. Simultaneously, as ICT continues to permeate various aspects of our daily lives, particularly with the advent of the Internet of Things (IoT), we find ourselves in a continuous cycle of adapting to and acquiring skills to operate new, frequently complex digital products. Skills that quickly become obsolete due to the relatively short lifespan of such products. The German sociologist Hartmut Rosa argues that modernization has always, under all its phases and wherever it has occurred, been characterized by acceleration and dynamization of various facets of society. Drawing on his theory of modernity, Social Acceleration, we show in this mainly theoretical paper how our current relation to ICT is characterized by alienation from the thing-world due to technical acceleration. We introduce the notion of the Right to Repair as an island of deceleration that can contribute to more resonant relations to technological devices, with positive outcomes for environmental sustainability.