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Electric Pants :prince_dance:
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EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones in a landslide; no more glued together junk!


https://youtube.com/watch?v=Yn-R39-dtc0
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@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
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Protecting people from themselves is stupid
BSD/r000t
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@Hyolobrika
And yet it's a smart business decision.

"My Nuckinfutz phone got all screwy. I'm gonna get a Beechermeet phone instead."

@sjw

Hyolobrika
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Why do you care about the profits of large corporations?
Hyolobrika
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>I don't care about the profits of large corporations
Okay. So what does "yet, it's a smart business decision" mean then?
creator of #fediblock :verified::makemeneko:
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@r000t @Hyolobrika @sjw @r000t tbf you can observe that a certain course of action appears intelligent for people holding certain motives without holding those same motives yourself
Hyolobrika
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Yes, but when he posted https://ligma.pro/users/r000t/statuses/110567390445253890 it seemed to me that he was saying there are good reasons for doing that.
Hyolobrika
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That's a good point.
There are reasons for having glued-in batteries that the EU either didn't think about or didn't care about. Which is a good argument for leaving it up to the market.
It's just disappointing that there are so few smartphone manufacturers that don't do that.
creator of #fediblock :verified::makemeneko:
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@r000t @Hyolobrika @sjw @r000t leaving it up to the market doesn't always work so well. the market won't always take a long term or well informed view. if nothing else gluing batteries in makes recycling much more difficult

I'm not sure why designs that become disposable paperweights long before the end of the useful life of the hardware should remain legal for such a prolific product. related, selling products with locked bootloaders should not be legal for similar (and additional) reasons

regulation regarding solder composition, power supply efficiency, heavy metal content, fire safety, etc exists. this seems similar to me

fire safety is a really good example. I would absolutely not want that left up to the market to determine on its own. user serviceable batteries is obviously less extreme but I think how the dynamics play out (short term views dominating) are quite similar