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EU votes to mandate removable batteries in smartphones
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james_s:

--- Quote from: eugene on June 19, 2023, 07:39:19 pm ---I'm not familiar with all of the devices that tszaboo mentions with odd connectors for charging. Everything handheld that I've purchased in the past decade or so has had micro-B, and then increasingly C type USB connectors for charging. It took me a long time to realize that the EU mandating USB C was in reality all about forcing Apple to toe the line. Is there a similarly unspoken motivation behind the replaceable battery mandate?

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Loads of early mobile phones had proprietary charging connectors, flip phones and feature phones up through 2010 or so, but this hasn't been an issue for a long time.
james_s:

--- Quote from: rteodor on June 20, 2023, 06:37:49 am ---I'd rather not carry my lab with me in outdoor trips when I have 2 additional batteries with me.
For some reasons I prefer them over a 0.5 Kg power bank.

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I have a power bank that fits in my pocket and will recharge my phone numerous times. I keep a larger one in my backpack that will recharge the phone dozens of times, even that one is not very heavy. Best of all it doesn't just charge my phone, it will charge my bluetooth headphones, Kindle reader, and any other USB devices, it has enough power that I can share with friends and charge their devices too. Way easier than carrying around a bunch of spare batteries.
james_s:

--- Quote from: nctnico on June 20, 2023, 11:41:07 am ---Having visited the US for the first time recently, I get the feeling that the US focusses on different areas but has just as many rules that could be perceived as overzealous. Like California where the restaurant menus need to show the calories of every portion. Or intersections with stop signs.

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California is a nutty place, Prop 65 that results in cancer warnings on absolutely everything is the poster child of this craziness. They even banned ordinary screw base light sockets which now has the effect of forcing people to use obsolete compact fluorescent bulbs instead of modern high efficiency LED bulbs, or to use sketchy adapters from China or bring in proper light fixtures from other states.

Calories on menu items are convenient though, we have that here, I don't know if it's required but I find it useful. Stop signs on intersections too, how could you drive safely without those? Uncontrolled intersections are fine in residential neighborhoods where traffic is very light but it would be very dangerous to have a street like this intersecting a busy arterial without a stop sign.
sokoloff:

--- Quote from: james_s on June 20, 2023, 07:00:27 pm ---California is a nutty place, Prop 65 that results in cancer warnings on absolutely everything is the poster child of this craziness. They even banned ordinary screw base light sockets which now has the effect of forcing people to use obsolete compact fluorescent bulbs instead of modern high efficiency LED bulbs, or to use sketchy adapters from China or bring in proper light fixtures from other states.
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California is a nutty place, but I see restrictions on unapproved screw base light bulbs being sold in California, I don't see restrictions on screw base light sockets. (And I see that this plain socket is for sale in Home Depots in California, which suggests they aren't actually banned.)
james_s:

--- Quote from: sokoloff on June 20, 2023, 07:06:52 pm ---
--- Quote from: james_s on June 20, 2023, 07:00:27 pm ---California is a nutty place, Prop 65 that results in cancer warnings on absolutely everything is the poster child of this craziness. They even banned ordinary screw base light sockets which now has the effect of forcing people to use obsolete compact fluorescent bulbs instead of modern high efficiency LED bulbs, or to use sketchy adapters from China or bring in proper light fixtures from other states.
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California is a nutty place, but I see restrictions on unapproved screw base light bulbs being sold in California, I don't see restrictions on screw base light sockets. (And I see that this plain socket is for sale in Home Depots in California, which suggests they aren't actually banned.)

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Maybe something has changed? I know for a while houses all had to have light fixtures with those GU-something or other bipin sockets for CFLs, they never really caught on anywhere else. Maybe it specifically applied to built in fixtures in new houses, I don't know the specifics of the law but it's possible they had the sense to get rid of it eventually.
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