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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by npteljes on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:09AM (#30661871)
Why do you think being allowed to do anything is about products and choice? If companies are allowed to do anything, then you get monopolies, wage slavery, then corpocracy. Environmental pollution, human rights violations. We don't even have real choices right now, and we especially wouldn't have if they were let go any further.
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by SpicyLemonZest on Sunday March 13, 2022 @11:56AM (#30662407)
I guess I’m not sure why you’re invoking such broad, general issues here. I see it as an issue of choice because I remember when I chose to change from the bulky replaceable battery phone I had at the time to a thinner, more comfortable one.
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by iso1631 on Sunday March 13, 2022 @01:43PM (#30663744)
Yet on the flip side my current phone is by the the largest phone I've ever had, the hardest to hold since the one which clipped on my belt and had a pull-up aerial, yet it's also one of the smallest phones on the market.
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Re:EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batte... by thfuran on Sunday March 13, 2022 @04:53PM (#30665584)
Because the context was literally someone saying they're in favor of a complete lack of legal restraint on the actions of companies or individuals.
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