[wizardarchetypes]

had to share-screen in an academic meeting yesterday and everyone started booing me

[wizardarchetypes]

[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.

[scifiseries]

[edgar-allan-possum]

[syrenki]

possible career paths for me:

1. matching pearls in pairs for earrings

2. msn butterfly

that's it probably

[anthxny]

[wizardworms]

Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec: At the Moulin Rouge, 1892-95

[tpwrtrmnky]

For the purposes of statements like "You shouldn't base your understanding of queer politics purely on what you've experienced online," Seattle counts as online.

[godblessthesickos]

World historical loser

[drwiltz-official]

[my-dailydreams]

[letterful]

[doodle-dust]

Friendly reminder that age verification is NOT safe, i repeat

THIS SHIT IS NOT SAFE!

[luna-drinker]

[free-my-mindd]

source? pattern recognition

[filmphotofranz]

[enbaluka-tokyo-drift]

[mutationgirl]

(having a good week) that’s right. the goal is to increase my baseline. make the spirals shallower until they spin lazily on the surface of the water, lose their suction. im not trying to fix it all at once, im trying to incrementally improve my way into something tolerable. and once im there maybe i can shoot for good

(having a bad week) and in my terrible forge i will temper the flames of ruin

[fongus-the-ninth]

[cursed-40k-thoughts]

[halondrus]

[cutecipher]

can you put that thing on a leash?

[halondrus]

ok