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minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglish99•1 day agoDon’t even get me started on the fact you can’t just replace a fucking battery anymore.
minus-square@WhatAmLemmylinkEnglish11•edit-21 day agoPretty sure that has almost nothing to do with it. There are other non-smartphone consumer electronics with IP68 and user replaceable batteries.
minus-squareComrade SpoodlinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 day agoSamsung Galaxy XCover series have replacable batteries
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•21 hours agoWith headphone jacks and SD card slots! I don’t need a streaming service to enjoy my 1TB of onboard media.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•1 day agoWhat do you mean you can’t? Sure, it takes an unnecessary amount of work, which is fucking stupid, but it is still absolutely doable at home (in most cases)
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish5•16 hours agoyou need to heat the phone up and mess about with the internals, even as a tech person i don’t want to risk fucking up my phone like that.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish11•22 hours agoWe want to hot swap our batteries on the go, you goof.
minus-squareSnot FlickermanlinkfedilinkEnglish22•1 day agoMost people literally do not have the technical knowledge for that. Just because I own the tools and can do it myself misses the larger issue of this being anti-consumer in general. Consumers shouldn’t need to have those kind of skills to change a battery.
Don’t even get me started on the fact you can’t just replace a fucking battery anymore.
Gotta keep that IP68 rating!
Pretty sure that has almost nothing to do with it.
There are other non-smartphone consumer electronics with IP68 and user replaceable batteries.
Samsung Galaxy XCover series have replacable batteries
Fairphones have them too.
With headphone jacks and SD card slots! I don’t need a streaming service to enjoy my 1TB of onboard media.
What do you mean you can’t? Sure, it takes an unnecessary amount of work, which is fucking stupid, but it is still absolutely doable at home (in most cases)
you need to heat the phone up and mess about with the internals, even as a tech person i don’t want to risk fucking up my phone like that.
We want to hot swap our batteries on the go, you goof.
Most people literally do not have the technical knowledge for that.
Just because I own the tools and can do it myself misses the larger issue of this being anti-consumer in general.
Consumers shouldn’t need to have those kind of skills to change a battery.