RyanHakurei comments on European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries

European Union votes to bring back replaceable phone batteries (www.techspot.com)

submitted 3 years ago by lightingnerd@kbin.social to c/tech@kbin.social

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Among the many changes, the new rules would require batteries in consumer devices like smartphones to be easily removable and replaceable. That's far from the case today...

[–] RyanHakurei@kbin.social 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

Lmao no this is shit. Say goodbye to durability as well as any water resistance while making phones bulkier to boot. You can already swap the battery on most non-fruit-branded phones while maintaining water resistance if you do it right (actually it would "reup" the water resistance if anything due to fresh adhesive, again assuming it's done right).

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[–] cykablyatbot@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (1 child)

Screw the environment. I demand convenience instead!

The level of entitlement people have nowadays is insane, especially regarding issues that they are happy to say are super important. They just refuse to give up an iota of cenvenience to do anything about it.

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[–] RyanHakurei@kbin.social 1 point 3 years ago*

Pssst, the environment isn't affected at least as far as Android phones are concerned as they allow battery swapping. I've swapped the batteries myself personally in my Nexus 4, 5, 6p, Pixel XL, Pixel 3 XL, and Pixel 4 XL. It's not that hard. You're allowing yourself to support bullshit with the virtue signal of muh environment which works out really well! Just look at Germany! Oh, right...

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