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minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up111arrow-down1·3 months agoDon’t even get me started on the fact you can’t just replace a fucking battery anymore.
minus-squarealmost1337@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up29arrow-down1·3 months agoGotta keep that IP68 rating!
minus-squareAnother Catgirl@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up38·edit-22 months agoThere are ip68 seals for phone frames so you can open it to replace the battery
minus-squareWhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up16·edit-23 months agoPretty sure that has almost nothing to do with it. There are other non-smartphone consumer electronics with IP68 and user replaceable batteries.
minus-squaredirtycrow@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 months agoManufacturers refuse to use nanoguard in their electronics despite being like a dollar
minus-squareComrade Spood@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 months agoSamsung Galaxy XCover series have replacable batteries
minus-squareSomeonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 months agoWith headphone jacks and SD card slots! I don’t need a streaming service to enjoy my 1TB of onboard media.
minus-squarepankuleczkapl@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down4·3 months agoWhat do you mean you can’t? Sure, it takes an unnecessary amount of work, which is fucking stupid, but it is still absolutely doable at home (in most cases)
minus-squareSnot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·3 months agoMost people literally do not have the technical knowledge for that. Just because I own the tools and can do it myself misses the larger issue of this being anti-consumer in general. Consumers shouldn’t need to have those kind of skills to change a battery.
minus-squarespicehoarder@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·3 months agoWe want to hot swap our batteries on the go, you goof.
minus-squareSwedneck@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 months agoyou need to heat the phone up and mess about with the internals, even as a tech person i don’t want to risk fucking up my phone like that.
Don’t even get me started on the fact you can’t just replace a fucking battery anymore.
Gotta keep that IP68 rating!
There are ip68 seals for phone frames so you can open it to replace the battery
Pretty sure that has almost nothing to do with it.
There are other non-smartphone consumer electronics with IP68 and user replaceable batteries.
Manufacturers refuse to use nanoguard in their electronics despite being like a dollar
Samsung Galaxy XCover series have replacable batteries
Fairphones have them too.
With headphone jacks and SD card slots! I don’t need a streaming service to enjoy my 1TB of onboard media.
What do you mean you can’t? Sure, it takes an unnecessary amount of work, which is fucking stupid, but it is still absolutely doable at home (in most cases)
Most people literally do not have the technical knowledge for that.
Just because I own the tools and can do it myself misses the larger issue of this being anti-consumer in general.
Consumers shouldn’t need to have those kind of skills to change a battery.
We want to hot swap our batteries on the go, you goof.
you need to heat the phone up and mess about with the internals, even as a tech person i don’t want to risk fucking up my phone like that.