You need to dish out around $500 (e.g. Pixel 10a) to get such a device new

i hope motorola pulls through with their new line of phones with unlockable bootloaders.

we had a tool for that, it was called necklace

gut feeling

You used to be able to replace a battery just b taking a cover off,

yeah, i do wonder, did these phones use to be water-proof? I don’t remember. In the rain i mean, environmental moisture.

what does software interoperability have to do with it?

https://www.circularise.com/blogs/r-strategies-for-a-circular-economy [R-Strategies for a Circular Economy]

damn the title really made me think for a moment it was talking about r/K strategies and i got all hyped up for a moment. But no, it’s just about resource usage.

well, it’s gotta be possible in concept. nature does it; the brain is compostible, or when incinerated, burns without a trace. Maybe we’re just not there yet technology-wise.

thank you for the links, i’ll study them in detail.

ok then i have a follow-up question: which of these toxic compounds are actually necessary? like could you produce a smartphone that works just as well without them?

my take that they don’t produce toxic waste was based on their low mass and on a discussion that i had with a friend years ago where we looked at the chemistry of smartphones and concluded that essentially, there’s no requirement to use toxic chemicals during their production process. i think my mind went on to assume “since it’s not necessary, it’s not happening”. which i see now was a wrong assumption.

this won’t work. it’s basically technologically impossible for a cell network provider to specifically block content based on keywords such as “trans” and “gender”. that would require decrypting TLS communication and i don’t think NSA is gonna give them the keys to that.

anyways, this proposal is a significant thing, not because of the real (physical) consequences it will have, but because of the psychological consequences. this signifies a push of people to regulate the internet more. which, i think is probably a bit similar to how russia and china each have their own internet which is almost detached from the rest of the world.

is this what the US is turning into?

after thinking about it a bit more, i recognize that the push to regulate smartphones is mostly about the psychological effect that people want to feel in control. it has nothing to do with the technology, it’s just a way of saying “yes i agree to regulating capitalism”.

in a certain sense, i can understand it. you gotta start somewhere.

2027 isnt a real year

yeah i feel the same way. it’s an imaginary year. it’s like a dream, it will be what your subconscious conjures up. if you have bad fantasy, that’s a problem for you!

what would you like the world to be? what bothers you?

rounded corners though

we need more pictures of nature on lemmy, they make a good mood

and i don’t mean the hyperaesthetic stylized bird picture, i mean casual encounters such as this one.

That might be so but oil is less important than it was in 1970. We have a good prospect of having renewable energies soon, and oil was mostly valued for its energy content, so there are alternatives and there’s less focus on oil.

The first time that Merz said something that wasn’t simply utterly untrue.