The only way out of the planned obsolescence hellhole.

[ImorallySourcedElectrons]

  On 8/8/2024 at 9:08 AM, Mark Kaine said:

found the mega corpo CEO!

*underpaid mega corpo engineer with a serious lack of motivation

[Caroline]

  On 8/7/2024 at 2:39 PM, Ertio said:

During that time, non-replaceable batteries escalated to serialized batteries, like a cancer that grew. And then not only smartphones but also laptops had them. This is what happens whenever evilness is not nipped in the bud in early stages: it grows and then takes over.

My man dropping an Inquisitor speech on a post about batteries, this is peak.

 

It is correct, however evil isn't the reason, greed is, when it comes to coporations evil or wrongdoings are byproducts of greed. You can make laws but they'll find ways to bypass them via legal loopholes, like saying X product isn't a phone but something else even though it has the ability to make calls and connect to mobile phone networks, wanna bet someone will do something like that?

 

I never identified myself as a right-to-repair activist or whatever, that gives me a little more freedom to write about certain things, main difference is R2R supporters are at the same time consumers that like and purchase things like smartphones, and I'm not, basically this:

  On 8/7/2024 at 8:02 PM, Kisai said:

Alternative solution. Stop buying junk. You do not need a $2000 smartphone or a $5000 laptop. Buy a desktop. Do everything on the desktop, and minimize what you "have to" do on the phone.

but a bit different, I can't afford a smartphone even if I wanted to (high upfront cost + insanely high monthly bills in my country), so I keep using my old brick and will continue to do so until it "dies", it works for me and that's what matters.

 

Other than phones I do build my own stuff, not because I'm a hippie that loves the environment but because of costs, everything is scarce in my side of the world, therefore expensive, so I work my magic when it comes to appliances, most of the stuff we have came from a recycling centre or was discarded as trash, managed to repair most of it for a fraction of the cost of a new one. I'm making truly long-lasting LED lights now, at least one for each room, they'll run off a solar panel and battery so they're relatively simple compared to AC powered ones, if I didn't have patience I could go and buy a bunch of prebuilt batten lights but I know they're crap and will die after a few months of use so I rather do this.

A pencil lead in a jar running off a router power brick will probably outlast most commercial AC LED bulbs you can get in my country right now.

 

Take off your shoes, we're gonna ignore the FBI warnings and watch Lain VHS rip on a 1950s TV set

[ImorallySourcedElectrons]

  On 8/9/2024 at 7:24 AM, Caroline said:

It is correct, however evil isn't the reason, greed is, when it comes to coporations evil or wrongdoings are byproducts of greed. You can make laws but they'll find ways to bypass them via legal loopholes, like saying X product isn't a phone but something else even though it has the ability to make calls and connect to mobile phone networks, wanna bet someone will do something like that?

There's a few ways to write these laws in ways that can't be bypassed, the issue is that lawmakers are listening to lobbyists instead of engineers.

 

But the amount of misinformation going around about lithium batteries is quite ludicrous in its own right - even amongst "professionals". Like how many of my colleagues never grasped the fact that we already derate the batteries so they'll last the lifetime of the product who then go "why isn't there a charge to only 80% option?" Well, the reason is that we'd have to go for a BMS that costs ten times as much while it'd only increase the longevity by maybe 1% because we already derated it to 60-70% from the get-go. But good luck explaining this to someone who can't grasp why a fixed resistor divider to specify a voltage is significantly cheaper than getting a far more advanced BMS.

[Ertio]

  On 8/8/2024 at 12:23 AM, LAwLz said:

Okay, but it feels weird to have a call to action and then not have a plan on what the action is or should be.

Indeed. The point is to stop patiently waiting for miracles.

 

  On 8/8/2024 at 12:23 AM, LAwLz said:

It means OP felt really proud of what they wrote and want to give everyone permission to repost it.

Yes. You caught me there.

 

  On 8/8/2024 at 8:14 AM, cooky560 said:

I'm not a lawyer, but I'm almost certain that as you posted this on a public forum, where the license for posts will be the one you agreed to provide to LMG when accepting the forum TOS, that this is worthless. 

Not exactly. Indeed, I couldn't make the license less permissive if I wanted to, but I made the license more permissive.

 

Everything from the TOS still applies, but on top of that, I granted additional permissions for the text.

 

  On 8/8/2024 at 8:58 AM, Mark Kaine said:

in fact, you can't even pull ! it doesn't work! lol... (just noticed this, in chrome only tho) 

In Chrome on Android, if you scroll up by swiping down, then hit the top of the page, then swipe down again, you trigger a refresh. This is pull-to-refresh.

 

I get why it would be useful for social media apps (you want to see the new content above the top), but most websites don't work that way, meaning pull-to-refresh is unwanted on most websites.

 

Most websites don't require refreshes, and when they do, the refresh button in the submenu (from your screenshot) does just fine.

 

 

[Mark Kaine]

  On 8/14/2024 at 5:08 PM, Ertio said:

In Chrome on Android, if you scroll up by swiping down, then hit the top of the page, then swipe down again, you trigger a refresh. This is pull-to-refresh

im telling you this doesn't work, neither chrome nor firefox... it does work on both samsung browsers tho!

 

i get why it might be annoying but its like my most used feature lol... its the equivalent of hitting F4 on pc... gotta do it  constantly or you might miss something! 

(゜o゜)

[Ertio]

  On 8/14/2024 at 6:13 PM, Mark Kaine said:

i get why it might be annoying but its like my most used feature lol... its the equivalent of hitting F4 on pc... gotta do it  constantly or you might miss something! 

Many websites are not feed-based. For example, do you ever need to refresh a YouTube video or a Wikipedia article? No. All it does is waste your battery charge and your data plan (if you are on cellular network).

 

And if you really do need to refresh a page, you can access the refresh button in the submenu in half a second. That's much faster than scrolling all the way to the top.

 

For non-feed websites, all pull-to-refresh does is trigger refreshing accidents when scrolling up because you hit the top before you realize, swipe down again, and trigger a refresh. Pull-to-refresh is only desirable for feed-based content, nothing else.

  On 8/14/2024 at 6:13 PM, Mark Kaine said:

im telling you this doesn't work, neither chrome nor firefox... it does work on both samsung browsers tho!

 

Pull-to-refresh is mandatory since version 75 (mid-2019). This means it can not be turned off anymore. From 2015 to 2019, it was optional.

 

Which version of Chrome for Android are you using?

 

 

[Mark Kaine]

  On 8/14/2024 at 7:12 PM, Ertio said:

Many websites are not feed-based. For example, do you ever need to refresh a YouTube video or a Wikipedia article? No.

constantly. (esp yt) 

 

also it's easily controllable if you want to refresh or not - sure it can happen by accident but rarely  - i just don't see a super convenient feature otherwise as problematic? 

 

 

  On 8/14/2024 at 7:12 PM, Ertio said:

accidents when scrolling up because you hit the top before you realize, swipe down again, and trigger a refresh. Pull-to-refresh is only desirable for feed-based content, nothing else.

disagree, its very hard to trigger by accident, but yes it can happen and be annoying, not doubting that, it's just hard to imagine this happens regularly? 

 

 

 

here... super easy *not* to refresh, the last one i do it on purpose

Edited August 14 by Mark Kaine
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[Mark Kaine]

  On 8/14/2024 at 7:12 PM, Ertio said:

From 2015 to 2019, it was optional.

... its not even an option for me, neither chrome nor Firefox... i bought this phone like 2 years ago iirc

 

*gonna chk brb

 

EDIT: yeap kernel vers 2020 (but i bought it later)

 

 

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

 

 

i repeat:  IT DOES WORK ON BOTH SAMSUNG BROWSERS idk...

[Ertio]

(Apologies for necro, but this point didn't come to my mind back then.)

  On 8/7/2024 at 5:04 PM, whispous said:

Strong, effective regulation with teeth is the way forward to ensure simple reusability/recyclability and repairability.

Realize that the law is not on the end user's (your) side.

 

How do the bureaucrats who determine the law benefit from you owning repairable stuff? Remember how a technofascist signed DMCA into law in 1998? The DMCA section 1201 limits what you can do to your property that you paid for.

 

Were you or me asked whether you even want this law? Who really wanted it? Most people didn't. But I know who did. Bill Clinton's technofascist buddies at the RIAA and MPAA.

 

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Imagine for a moment now that we can build public libraries all around the world, basically for free, even in the most remote of places, each having so many books that they could fill an ocean, each book in so many copies that arbitrarily many people could lend the same book at the same time, for as long as they want. Wouldn't that be great? People promoting anti-piracy are those who say "no, we are against this". You just can't argue anyone supporting anti-piracy is not evil.

(source, Miloslav Číž, CC0)