Sustainable Tech
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This is a community for promoting sustainability in tech and computing. This includes: understanding the impact that our tech/computing choices have on the environment; purchasing or re-using devices that are sustainable and repairable; how to properly recycle or dispose of old devices when it is beyond use; and promoting software and services that allow us to reduce our environmental impact in the long term, both at work and in our personal lives.
This isn't a competition, it's a reminder to stay grounded when making your decisions. Remember: The most sustainable device is the one that you are already using.
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- Stay on-topic. Everything from sustainable smartphones to data centers and the green energy that powers them is fair game.
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There is some great stuff here. Like DIY repairs not voiding warranty as long as you follow i fixit, and that it is designed to be DIY repairable. This should be legally mandated for anyone manufacturing a smartphone. One issue stuck out to me though:
"3 years of warranty^⁵^ and monthly security updates, plus 2 years of Android upgrades.^⁶^"
Footnote #6:
From the global launch date of Nokia G22
Looking at this page, it seems to be targeted at a general audience who is interested in keeping the same device for a longer time. Can't assume there will be custom ROMs or whatever.
Only 2 years of updates from launch sounds terrible. What good is the hardware if stuff doesn't run properly? Once you stop getting android updates, the whole thing starts loosing functionality because you can't install/upgrade apps. Even the security upgrades are only for 3 years. It sounds like Nokia does not really intend for these things to be around that long. I wonder for how long the parts will actually be available.
Small step in the right direction and it's good some engineers and supply chain people and designers and tech writers are thinking this way and figuring what a smartphone that isn't intended to be garbage would look like. But lots more infrastructure is needed.
Legally, in the US, diy repairs can only void your warranty if the manufacturer can prove (the burden is on them) that your repair caused the issue you are trying to claim under a warranty.
I forget the name of the law, but Louis Rossmann has talked about it before.
Its great that companies are finally (being forced to make) sustainable tech, but...
I've had modern Nokia phones...
Bugs don't get fixed, and security updates come late. Customer support is painful.