If your hardware ain’t working maybe there’s barrier to devs working on it caused by the designer/manufacture. Or we have not paid them enough for it to be worth their time?

Crazy to see the thread of people using “open source” differently. The term “open source” may have successed in replacing the older term “free software” (in popularity) but apparently it can also fail to be clear. “Open” can mean various degrees of openess, or lack thereof in this case.

It’s free as in free food but adding an extra line to restrict how it can be used, or with who, makes it non-free software (free as in freedom).

I beseech you god of Irony, make it so Amazon workers can vote him out of office.

🐃+🐧 🤓

Modularity and accessiblity costs more in research, design and testing but there are many factors to the purchase price and if that’s actually better than replacing it over and over.

Personally I don’t think the industry will change until consumers value more than just the price.

The warranty is 2 years. Warranty is the confidence a company has that it will last as longer as that. Batteries eventually die, so that is the one part in mobile devices we can guarantee needs to be replaced.

Manufacturers make bigger devices difficult to repair - so it being a small form factor is just an excuse. When they try and it fails then is the time to consider if it’s feasible. Fairphone products are probably average at best but you can at least replace the batteries in a small device like their earbuds (Fairbuds), and assume they will get better at making repairable devices.

It’s unappealing to have software be hostile. Software that does what I want only if it’s creator doesn’t actively oppose it… that need not be on my computer.

Update consumer protection laws and actually enforce them. Laws that were written back when tech would come with the schematics.

I don’t expect a computer to last 2 years due to a battery dying.

Who’s expecting a computer to last about 2 years?

Money that could be used on Google products and services. A positive feedback loop!

Why are we comfortable with not owning the things we buy :/

I don’t go out much but if I did an ebike is the way to go, if it wasn’t raining.

When tech isn’t controlled by the user: then the user is controlled by the dev, and power corrupts.

Some are born selfish and others are molded by our insistence you strive for money to survive.

Since Google is making money of everyone how about they partake in funding everyone via a universal basic income. Just a thought.

If there were a software that aught to be in control of the user (rather than the developer) then it’s software running inside of you.

When things really matter all we have is conversation or violence. If our understanding of neuroscience gets good enough… this is where violence can/will happen.

When talking trade-offs you can’t just compare a combustion engine to an electric engine, you gotta consider electric public transport too. This has the bonus of pissing on Musk.

There’s DRM in public trains now. It’s not just cars, it’s every industry with electronic device running software.

Not using a hard paywall is silly, no sympathy there. Some sympathy for when your paywalled content has been crawled for. Though not much - in this age where making copies has never been easier using force is all they can do to impose their wish of artificial scarcity.