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Fairphone CEO says it’s a ‘myth’ that sustainable tech has to cost more and be of lower quality: ‘Neither is needed’ (www.techradar.com)

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[-] fading_person@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 day ago

Every time someone mentions the headphone jack, comes a legion of people defending the corporations. People will really accept anything they do and bully the ones who don't want to submit. That's impressive! And we're in a place with higher-than-average corporation haters.

It's even more impressive when we think about how Bluetooth earphone users don't gain anything by removing the jack, neither lose anything by keeping it. It literally doesn't affect them, but heavily affects anyone who uses wired phones or other stuff. People simply use their energy against others, in favor of corporations for absolutely no benefits for them, but simply for fucking the other people. I can't understand this behavior.

[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 16 hours ago

The GD phone is modular and repairable. How TF did they manage not to make the jack at least an option?

[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

People will really accept anything they do and bully the ones who don’t want to submit. That’s impressive! And we’re in a place with higher-than-average corporation haters.

I don't see it that way at all. Would I personally like to see the headphone jack return? Sure. But there are about 5,002 more important issues when it comes to tech corporations (Ie. privacy, repairability, software support, obsolescence, etc... just to name a few). People aren't defending corporations as much as they are "picking their battles".

Your headphone jack battle is inconsequential and frankly kind of stupid in the larger scheme of the war right now. Would it be great to get to a point where all the battles are won and all we have to worry about is a damn headphone jack? Absolutely. But we're not there.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

The more you ignore the smallest bad changes , the more they will be confident to ruin all the bigger issues you mentionned

[-] fading_person@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So, are people picking their battles by practically bullying others into thinking they're wrong and outdated? They could simply ignore people talking about phone jacks, but they don't. They're not picking battles. They're actively fighting, and on the corps' side.

Also, there's always a bigger battle. If we think like this, no one will ever do anything. Corporations don't go all in. They take things away from us one small step at a time, and people allow it, because they're always small things, but just like boiling frogs, we will end up into a cyberpunk era.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago

It's been long time that i didn't use wired one but i have a problem of removing stuffs just because the majority of people no longer use it. Wired one still have 34% marketshare which is still a lot of people

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