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Reasons is a good start. Explaining and justifying those reasons would be better. I choose hackability and upgradeability and less vendor lockin because I myse
by lolinder 2y ago
Reasons is a good start. Explaining and justifying those reasons would be better.
I choose hackability and upgradeability and less vendor lockin because I myself value those things, but I see that as a personal preference and not something I want or need to impose on the industry as a whole. Benefits to the environment and reducing waste are clearly valuable but it's not obvious to me without seeing data that such benefits would be high—many people tend to upgrade phones long before batteries need replacing anyway, so I would need to see data that demonstrates that a substantial number of things would be saved from the landfill by virtue of higher reparability.
- coldtea 2y ago>Reasons is a good start. Explaining and justifying those reasons would be better The question was "Why specifically is it bad", and I gave 6 reasons. Does the "justyfing" demand stop at some point, or we'd get down all the way to justifying why being alive is better than being dead, why anything ever matters, and so on? I think the reasons are self-evident - i.e. it shouldn't take any argument as to why repairability and upgradability are good, why being more at the mercy of the vendor is bad, or why protecting environment and being less wasteful matters.
- lolinder 2y agoI brought up counterpoints to each of your reasons, but if you don't want to have a conversation about them that's fine. I'm not particularly invested in my counter position, I just get very tired of the zeitgeist where people think it's okay to dismiss a popular perspective because it's "obviously" wrong. And no, flat-earther comparisons aren't going to fly, I'm talking about perspectives held by tens of millions.