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5 years for parts is better than nothing but its still a lot of e-waste. Ideally given screens and ports and batteries are something that have been around for d
by PaulKeeble 4y ago
5 years for parts is better than nothing but its still a lot of e-waste. Ideally given screens and ports and batteries are something that have been around for decades and will be around for decades more in similar ways it would be nice to extend this out longer. With progress on CPUs/GPUs slowing we do need to start to consider much longer usable life times for computer products and having obsolence built in at 5 years when a consumable like the battery fails isn't OK.
OS updates also very short so this phone is quickly going to end up on LineageOS.
- charcircuit 4y ago>but its still a lot of e-waste Phones are a tiny amount of waste. Trying to get a few extra years out of one is a microoptimization in reducing one's waste output.
- Nextgrid 4y agoI'm not sure if the physical volume of the phone in a landfill is the only issue to consider. What about all the energy and resources used to manufacture it?
- palata 4y ago> Phones are a tiny amount of waste. Can you elaborate on that? Seems completely wrong to me.
- charcircuit 4y agoThink of how much people throw away each week. A phone is only a couple hundred grams and takes up a small amount of space. Think of how many phones could fit in a single garbage bag. The number will be way more than the number of phones they will go through in their entire life. So in your entire life you are saving a fraction of a garbage bag's worth of garbage.
- palata 4y agoRight, but it's not the weight that matters, it's the environmental impact. And there I'm convinced that e-waste is not negligible.