You need to dish out around $500 (e.g. Pixel 10a) to get such a device new

i hope motorola pulls through with their new line of phones with unlockable bootloaders.

You used to be able to replace a battery just b taking a cover off,

yeah, i do wonder, did these phones use to be water-proof? I don’t remember. In the rain i mean, environmental moisture.

what does software interoperability have to do with it?

https://www.circularise.com/blogs/r-strategies-for-a-circular-economy [R-Strategies for a Circular Economy]

damn the title really made me think for a moment it was talking about r/K strategies and i got all hyped up for a moment. But no, it’s just about resource usage.

well, it’s gotta be possible in concept. nature does it; the brain is compostible, or when incinerated, burns without a trace. Maybe we’re just not there yet technology-wise.

thank you for the links, i’ll study them in detail.

ok then i have a follow-up question: which of these toxic compounds are actually necessary? like could you produce a smartphone that works just as well without them?

my take that they don’t produce toxic waste was based on their low mass and on a discussion that i had with a friend years ago where we looked at the chemistry of smartphones and concluded that essentially, there’s no requirement to use toxic chemicals during their production process. i think my mind went on to assume “since it’s not necessary, it’s not happening”. which i see now was a wrong assumption.

after thinking about it a bit more, i recognize that the push to regulate smartphones is mostly about the psychological effect that people want to feel in control. it has nothing to do with the technology, it’s just a way of saying “yes i agree to regulating capitalism”.

in a certain sense, i can understand it. you gotta start somewhere.

2027 isnt a real year

yeah i feel the same way. it’s an imaginary year. it’s like a dream, it will be what your subconscious conjures up. if you have bad fantasy, that’s a problem for you!

what would you like the world to be? what bothers you?

looks yummy. could be that i’m just hungry

rounded corners though

I have never heard the phrase “everything you like about life is a market inefficiency” before

well, i have, at least a similar phrase: “the goal of life is death. so why don’t we all just die already?”

i think it hits in a similar vein, and the answer/solution to the riddle is probably gonna be similar somewhat.

o.O it’s a thing!

you can feel seen by a picture (webcomic) even though the picture has no eyes.

dr. pepper? i assumed it’s a plant

It’s more important where you go to than where you come from.

Reminds me of this is she into you video where he just mentions that “she’s been with me for 15 years, we’re married and have kids, but i can’t tell whether she’s into me; she’s probably canadian and just being nice”