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But the screen cracked 49 years ago. It stopped getting OS updates 48 years ago. And the 5G towers got deprecated 40 years ago.

nacs 3y ago
Good thing we have removable batteries in all the phones now /s
- MrDresden 3y ago
  It is coming (again) thanks to one of the largest single market on the planet making replacable batteries in portable electronics a requirement by 2027 (in 3 years time) [0]. I find it highly unlikely that there will be double production of devices for the EU market on one hand and the rest of the world on the other (and the biggest producers are not going to be pulling out of the market for obvious reasons). [0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IPR96210/making-batteries-more-sustainable-more-durable-and-better-performing https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IP...
  - summm 3y ago
    If only. I suspect they will use the "waterproof" exception as an excuse to continue as before.
    - Arnt 3y ago
      I hope so. I've loved that ever since the first summer with a waterproof phone. Where I live, the summer rains can drench you in a minute,
  - crotchfire 3y ago
    You're ignoring the third possibility which is that, given three years to do so, the lobbyists capture the regulators like they always do.
    - MrDresden 3y ago
      Possible. But given that they couldn't do that with the cash cow that is the ios app store[0] I won't hold my breath for it to happen with batteries. [0] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/15/app-store-to-be-split-in-two/ https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/15/app-store-to-be-split-i...
peteradio 3y ago
And I got brain cancer 2 years ago.
- legulere 3y ago
  Nickel 63 decays to stable copper 63 under beta radiation with 66.9 keV energy. Some centimetres are already enough to stop that, with aluminum a millimeter should probably already be enough. As long as you don't ingest the battery you will be fine.
mint2 3y ago
And the smashed phones contaminated the groundwater with ni-63

nacs 3y ago

Good thing we have removable batteries in all the phones now /s

MrDresden 3y ago
It is coming (again) thanks to one of the largest single market on the planet making replacable batteries in portable electronics a requirement by 2027 (in 3 years time) [0]. I find it highly unlikely that there will be double production of devices for the EU market on one hand and the rest of the world on the other (and the biggest producers are not going to be pulling out of the market for obvious reasons). [0] https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IPR96210/making-batteries-more-sustainable-more-durable-and-better-performing https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20230609IP...
- summm 3y ago
  If only. I suspect they will use the "waterproof" exception as an excuse to continue as before.
  - Arnt 3y ago
    I hope so. I've loved that ever since the first summer with a waterproof phone. Where I live, the summer rains can drench you in a minute,
- crotchfire 3y ago
  You're ignoring the third possibility which is that, given three years to do so, the lobbyists capture the regulators like they always do.
  - MrDresden 3y ago
    Possible. But given that they couldn't do that with the cash cow that is the ios app store[0] I won't hold my breath for it to happen with batteries. [0] https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/15/app-store-to-be-split-in-two/ https://www.macrumors.com/2024/01/15/app-store-to-be-split-i...

peteradio 3y ago

And I got brain cancer 2 years ago.

legulere 3y ago
Nickel 63 decays to stable copper 63 under beta radiation with 66.9 keV energy. Some centimetres are already enough to stop that, with aluminum a millimeter should probably already be enough. As long as you don't ingest the battery you will be fine.

mint2 3y ago

And the smashed phones contaminated the groundwater with ni-63