• lysdexic@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    We spend so much time building devices that are meant to break, and be unfixable, and making software that fights the user instead of helping.

    Kudos to the EU for forcing mobile phone manufacturers to support replaceable batteries and standardize on USB-C charging.

    • AA5B@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m not sold on user replaceable phone batteries, but USB-C was a long time coming.

      I just wish they had moved faster on USB standardization - I’m trying to switch but my phone and Kindle are my only USB-C devices. Either I need to waste functioning products by updating everything else or I still need chargers for older stuff back to mini-USB. It’d be nice to standardize on USB-C charging blocks but even that would mean buying new cables or adapters for four different USB form factors