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m k:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 07, 2021, 06:27:32 am ---I guess you don't live in the US?  Here, the carriers get special versions of every phone made for them

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We are pro-choice, pro-mask.

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 07, 2021, 06:08:37 am ---
--- Quote from: Miyuki on December 07, 2021, 05:55:23 am ---[...]
Home appliances work. Last exchanged was Fridge and Dryer, both about 20 years.
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I am willing to bet that whatever appliances you buy to replace these units will not last 10 years without major repairs...   All of the experienced appliance technicians that I have had cause to talk with recently (due to problems with appliances <5y old), they all seem to say that modern appliances are not well made unless you buy commercial/industrial units at astronomical cost...
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That's mostly true.


--- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 07, 2021, 06:08:37 am ---Is it environmentally sound to carry on the way we are doing,

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I think the answer to that is obvious. But will that stop us? Answer is most likely still no.
We'll do whatever it takes to keep using the same approach, for instance by pretending to mitigate the issues (hint: create a lot of new taxes and talk about recycling every change we get, even if that effectively leads to a very low recycle fraction.) I think we'll keep doing the same until things collapse, and will use greenwashing to justify it. This is what we currently do, I don't see any sign of it changing. It's only getting worse. We'll even show with fake studies that producing shorter-lasting items and making them easier to recycle (even if again the effective recycle fraction is negligible) is better environmentally-wise than producing longer-lasting products.

David Hess:

--- Quote from: SilverSolder on December 07, 2021, 05:53:20 am ---Cloud storage is another way to lock the customer in...  who's going to change away from a vendor's cloud system once their family photos and videos are all stored there, and shared with other family members that way?   Big Tech will become like banks - where consumers are more likely to get divorced than switch bank! :D

So of course, the vendors don't want to give us an easy and cheap way to manage our own information, when they can collect it and sell it back to us for all eternity.   They also don't want to give us a simple headphone jack, when they can instead keep selling us expensive wireless earbuds designed to last a few years...
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Even Microsoft is playing that game.  They are slowly removing features from File Explorer to make their cloud storage solution more desirable in place of local storage.

And it goes farther than that.  A Microsoft representative actually said that they removed the free space status from File Explorer to reduce "free space anxiety".  But of course that also discourages users from moderating their data storage, so they unwittingly pay more.  ISPs play the same game with caps, overage fines, and refusing to monitor remaining data in real time.

ogden:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on December 07, 2021, 05:16:20 pm ---We'll do whatever it takes to keep using the same approach, for instance by pretending to mitigate the issues (hint: create a lot of new taxes and talk about recycling every change we get, even if that effectively leads to a very low recycle fraction.) I think we'll keep doing the same until things collapse, and will use greenwashing to justify it. This is what we currently do, I don't see any sign of it changing. It's only getting worse.

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Companies obviously are not made for charity. If they can maximize profit - they will do it. Consumers can change that by not buying certain stuff, but as we all know - they care (about environment) even less. Unfortunately most are buying cheapest s***t they can get, manufacturers meet demand.


--- Quote ---We'll even show with fake studies that producing shorter-lasting items and making them easier to recycle (even if again the effective recycle fraction is negligible) is better environmentally-wise than producing longer-lasting products.

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Wow. Please provide pointer to such study. Thanx.

james_s:

--- Quote from: Miyuki on December 07, 2021, 09:07:40 am ---Have cable reduction all the time on earbuds? Or have lightning / USB c earbuds. They are available.

Plenty of banks and similar requires to use front face camera to their face verification  :-//

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I don't want to have to use a dongle or buy new earbuds, I want the stuff I already have to just plug into it like I do with my current phone. I also sometimes connect a cable to a stereo system to amplify music playing on my phone.

I have never seen anything that required the front facing camera or even heard of something like a bank using it for verification. Maybe they do that in your part of the world but as far as I know it isn't a thing here yet. I've had a smartphone since 2011 and so far I have never once intentionally enabled the front facing camera.

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