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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by rglullis on Thursday September 23, 2021 @11:51AM (#28630927)
> Make ownership of digital device mean something again.

Then just go buy from someone who actually is behind these values, and not someone who just greenwashes their products.

> US obsession

Sorry to spoil your ad hominem, but I am born in Brazil and have been living in Germany for 8 years.

> I want the problem fixed.

The problem is fixed already: I've been having this discussion while typing from a fairphone, which I was free to install /e/ OS without any Google services, and it cost less than an iPhone SE. I can open and replace not only the battery, but also the display and the camera.

I didn't have to wait any bureaucrat in Brussels to do this, and quite frankly I believe that if it were up to them they would find a way to screw this small Dutch company out of existence.

Stop buying Apple products. Stop buying anything from any company that is consumer hostile, even if the "ethical" alternatives are more expensive/less adequate for your needs. I can guarantee you this problem (and others that you don't even care about) will be fixed faster than by waiting for the EU.

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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday September 23, 2021 @05:25PM (#28635665)
"The problem is fixed already: I've been having this discussion while typing from a fairphone"

Congratulations, you are part of the 0.1%. and yet every day millions of unrepairable phones go to landfill, petrol cars are still being produced, coal is still being burned.

Maybe enough is enough, democracy is more impirtant than 'free market'. I want to nail the invisible hand to the cross to make a point.

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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by rglullis on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:22PM (#28636342)
> yet every day millions of unrepairable phones go to landfill, petrol cars are still being produced, coal is still being burned.

Again with the whataboutism? Who are you trying to fool with this lame rhetoric?

You say you want democracy, but what you are preaching is totalitarianism.

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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by ClumsyPilot on Thursday September 23, 2021 @06:51PM (#28636573)
It's not whatavoutism, it's problems the ideology of 'choice' couldn't solve for 50 years.

I think you are preaching anarchy.

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Re:EU plans to force OEMs to use a common charger for all ph... by rglullis on Thursday September 23, 2021 @07:13PM (#28636779)
Try again: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28636510

If you need a label, I am "preaching" localism.

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