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1. Your New Kemono Waifu :verified: :cornbread_the_cat: (sjw@bae.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 06:36:12 JST Your New Kemono Waifu :verified: :cornbread_the_cat:
   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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   • Lelouche 🌸 (lelouchebag@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 06:36:12 JST Lelouche 🌸

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     @sjw R*dditors are already shitflinging saying it won't be waterproof anymore (hint: phones aren't already, and even phones from the early 2000's could handle a bit of moisture). And everyone already uses a case anyway and most of those are good enough to keep water out
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   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 06:37:45 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • Lelouche 🌸
     @lelouchebag @sjw
   • DeadBead (bead@poa.st)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 06:38:41 JST DeadBead

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • Lelouche 🌸
     @coolboymew @lelouchebag @sjw >Dick Smith
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   • Rusty Crab (rustycrab@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 06:39:59 JST Rusty Crab

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • Lelouche 🌸
     @coolboymew @sjw @lelouchebag get yourself to the dicksmith immediately
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   • Stale Donut (staledonut@shitposter.world)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 06:40:43 JST Stale Donut

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     • cool_boy_mew
     • Lelouche 🌸
     @coolboymew @lelouchebag @sjw This is a modern art interpretive depiction of my life.
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   • Token (coin@asimon.org)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 06:52:35 JST Token

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     • Himbo Techbro
     @r000t @sjw Wouldn't a much smaller but an internal battery (that apparently still exists in smartphones today) fix the corruption issue?
   • Himbo Techbro (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Monday, 19-Jun-2023 06:52:36 JST Himbo Techbro

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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.

   • Himbo Techbro (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:10:40 JST Himbo Techbro

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     • Hyolobrika

     @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 (hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:10:40 JST Hyolobrika

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     • Himbo Techbro
     Why do you care about the profits of large corporations?
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   • Hyolobrika (hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:10:41 JST Hyolobrika

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     • Himbo Techbro
     Protecting people from themselves is stupid
   • Hyolobrika (hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:15:30 JST Hyolobrika

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     • Himbo Techbro
     • verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko:
     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.
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   • Himbo Techbro (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:15:31 JST Himbo Techbro

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     • verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko:
     • Hyolobrika

     @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

   • verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko: (roboneko@bae.st)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:15:32 JST verified neko :verified::verified::verified::makemeneko:

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     • Himbo Techbro
     • Hyolobrika
     @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 (hyolobrika@social.fbxl.net)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:15:33 JST Hyolobrika

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     • Himbo Techbro
     >I don't care about the profits of large corporations
     Okay. So what does "yet, it's a smart business decision" mean then?
   • Himbo Techbro (r000t@ligma.pro)'s status on Saturday, 11-Nov-2023 05:15:34 JST Himbo Techbro

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     • Hyolobrika

     @Hyolobrika
     Have you stopped beating your wife?
     @sjw