@sjw I'm genuinely unsure how I feel about this.
One of the reasons we went with non-replaceable batteries is that this prevents the user from cutting power and corrupting storage, which is something users like to do the moment the phone gets a little slow.
@Hyolobrika
And yet it's a smart business decision.
"My Nuckinfutz phone got all screwy. I'm gonna get a Beechermeet phone instead."
@Hyolobrika
Have you stopped beating your wife?
@sjw
@roboneko
Nailed it.
I pontificate over how fucking easy it would have been for the trumbus to fucking make a copy, or scan, his 50 bankers boxes of national secrets, instead of taking the fucking originals, for the love of the game. But I really don't give a fuck about the trumbus *or* national secrets.
As for the battery thing
- wasn't aware mandates were suddenly cool
- I'm a big fan of making it harder for stupid people to do stupid things that I then have to support or else I'm fired
- phone manufacturers aren't going to allow the phones to get thicker for this, they are simply going to make the battery smaller
- if you think they won't DRM the batteries, think again
I'm all for the battery being user-replaceable. I am not at all a fan of the battery being readily pullable by a zoomer who was told "Surgeon General to iPhone Owners: Do This Every Day. (IMPORTANT)"
@sjw @Hyolobrika
@Hyperhidrosis
Someone's never worked help desk.
Also, just throwing this out there, a pretty big chunk of the "huehuehue EU so many regulations" crowd changes gears and licks boots in a big damned hurry when the thing they're making broad sweeping mandates over is tech.
@sjw
@Hyolobrika
GDPR is being used daily to chill projects and speech by randoms like you and me.
The libertarian-leaning (I'm not) student of human behavior would also tell you that regulations on corporations are the foot in the door to regulate things like speech.
And corporate regulations, especially in regards to the internet, already chill speech. Aren't there EU regulations on hate speech, pornography, and etc?
I think corporations, big and small, and individuals (such as individual business owners, landlords, contractors) need regulations for matters relating to health and safety, preservation of fundamental rights for people *forced* to participate in a private transaction, and not a whole lot much else. If you agree with that btw, it's not hypocrisy, it's nuance.
@sjw @Hyperhidrosis
@Hyolobrika
Also, sth super important to know about me is that I can argue any side. It definitely doesn't mean I agree with it.
I belive that if you have an opinion on sth, you should at least be able to try and argue the other side. This is how you make good arguments for use against someone who *actually* is of the other side.
@sjw @Hyperhidrosis
@Hyolobrika
Here, deploy this code and you'll see people using GDPR to *try* and stop you. They obviously can't, but the overwhelming majority of people don't know that, and just obey scary letters.
https://stealthward.xyz/aspublic-latest.tar
@sjw @Hyperhidrosis