Comment on What's the biggest change you would like to see in computing/tech?
Jack3G@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Honestly, just less waste. Wasted time, wasted hardware, etc. We spend so much time building devices that are meant to break, and be unfixable, and making software that fights the user instead of helping. All in the name of profits or something.
We could be making so many cool things, but instead we’re going back and forth not making any progress.
lysdexic@programming.dev 10 months ago
Kudos to the EU for forcing mobile phone manufacturers to support replaceable batteries and standardize on USB-C charging.
AA5B@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I’m not sold on user replaceable phone batteries, but USB-C was a long time coming.
I just wish they had moved faster on USB standardization - I’m trying to switch but my phone and Kindle are my only USB-C devices. Either I need to waste functioning products by updating everything else or I still need chargers for older stuff back to mini-USB. It’d be nice to standardize on USB-C charging blocks but even that would mean buying new cables or adapters for four different USB form factors
lysdexic@programming.dev 10 months ago
As someone who had a perfectly fine Android smartphone die because its battery went dead, and had to replace it with an off-brand one to keep it ticking… I can assure you that the lack of support for user-replaceable phone batteries is forcing people to throw away perfectly good hardware.
whofearsthenight@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’m sold on user replaceable batteries, just not necessarily like they are the Nokia’s of old. Especially with phones, they’re mature enough where the end of support for them is either a chi a company makes, or just purely because the battery is dead. Batteries don’t necessarily need to be hot-swappable, but they should be able to be replaced by most people in-home, with tools you probably already have.