A low-carbon computing platform from your retired phones
4d 19h ago by lemmy.bestiver.se/u/rssbot in hackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se from research.google
On average, people replace their phone every four years. This is generally driven by people’s desire for a new device, including for the functionalities provided by new models.
No, its driven by aggressive marketing, manipulation, and consumerism, you degenerate fucks.
And their active de-rating of the hardware. And the inability to repair the otherwise easily repairable USB charger port. You gotta carefully not break your screen into a billion pieces, then replace the USB connector and battery. Simple, except for the part where you gotta not break your screen.
Oh found a phone that is moderately repairable? Well fuck you the bootloader is locked (Looking at you, HMD)
This will never make up for Google dropping their carbon neutral pledge