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Comment on YSK before you buy a replacement for your cellphone that has stopped charging, buy the $10 cleaning kits and spend the time deep cleaning the phone's charging port.

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quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

Doubtful. This might be an issue in countries that don’t require iPhone to use standards or that have terrible anti-consumer laws.

In any case, if that’s you, its not impossible. Just need to take it with you the next time you go on a trip overseas to a country that isn’t run by corporations

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BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Or better yet don’t buy some anti consumer locked down phone that’s intentionally made hard to repair by a shitty company, I’m going back to android in the future where something as basic as replacing a port would never be a issue, but with Google fucking with the sideloading in android I’m concerned they are on a path similar to Apple, I wish some truly open source phone OS would be available like Linux so is for PCs

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- quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Google’s fuckery is impotent against phones without Google.
  
  Just install your own OS and don’t jnstall gappa (by default its absent) and Google can’t stop you from installing apps from third party app stores.
  
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