Lee is in

@0hlee <--- :)

[sixpenceee]

Entire brick wall smoothed out by the ocean 

[garbagedisp0sal]

[onemoreminutes]

07-05-2025

[buddhabrot]

[babyfoxcollectionthings]

[movementnudge]

Movement nudge!

X

[curseofmeatthawsmoth]

I've been doing at least a couple of these every day and it really helps.

[penny-anna]

what the hell is going on

[k9t33th]

[yourreddancer]

The European Union already forced Apple to abandon its proprietary charging port and adopt USB-C across its entire iPhone lineup. It just did something bigger. A new EU mandate requires every smartphone sold in Europe including Apple devices to feature a battery that can be replaced by the user without specialist tools, without voiding a warranty, and without sending the device to a manufacturer approved service center. Batteries must maintain a minimum capacity threshold after a set number of charge cycles and replacement parts must remain available for up to ten years after a model goes on sale.

The consumer electronics industry built its current business model around batteries that degrade, cannot be replaced at home, and create a natural upgrade cycle every two to three years. The EU just legislated that model out of existence in the world's largest regulatory market.

Apple, Samsung, and every other manufacturer now faces a choice between redesigning their devices for the European market or accepting that their current hardware architecture is no longer legally sellable there.

Given that no company walks away from European consumers voluntarily the phones are going to change and once they change for Europe the rest of the world will ask why theirs still do not.

[frontmansdefender]

[ghostgods-deactivated20220410]

a bad dream?

[jetix]

2024-09-21

[miamaimania]

Delicate predator: ‘Orchid Mantis’ ➤ by the master of surrealism

[midiport]

[miamaimania]

"Design for Textile" (c.1850) ⚡ France — red lightning-bolt zigzags on black

[howieabel]

“The less you eat, drink, buy books, go to the theatre or to balls, or to the pub, and the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you will be able to save and the greater will become your treasure which neither moth nor rust will corrupt—your capital. The less you are, the less you express your life, the more you have, the greater is your alienated life and the greater is the saving of your alienated being.” ― Karl Marx, Economic & Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844

[nobrashfestivity]

Sigmar Polke