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Do you miss phones with replaceable batteries? By 2027, you won't anymore because, by law, almost every smartphone will have them again.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Change this to “you can do that now with…some very basic tools” and we have a deal. It should only require a “normal” screwdriver, nothing outside of tips such as cross, flat, hex, torx and which I’m forgetting. Basically none of that Y shaped bullshit or the torx-looking tip with the little raised dot. Fuck all of that shit. And of course no heat gun requirement. I don’t think it’s asking a ton to be able to remove like 10 small screw (or whatever it takes) and pull an old battery out, insert a new one. I like to believe we can figure this out as a species…or rather, I know we already CAN but it’s just profitable for all the manufacturers to basically build in a “phone death date” because they know the battery will shit itself under 4-5 years and be reduced considerably in only the first 2. Make it a hassle/expensive to replace and force upgrades. Bad for the world and bad for consumers. At least those precious investors get their returns… the almighty investor…

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

or the torx-looking tip with the little raised dot.

That's Torx TR, meaning "keep out if you don't know what you're doing", they're freely and widely available, not stopping anyone just giving pause. Completely different ballpark than vendor-specific heads or one-way heads or stuff someone will sue you for if you produce drivers.

Heck if you buy a random small bit set, not a security one mind you but ordinary, chances aren't small that the Torx bits are going to be TR as you can use them with non-TR torx.

That's not to say that you should use them for user-servicable battery compartments, on the contrary: Those are supposed to be "yep come in it's quite idiot-safe in here" types of places. But you'd want them when you dig further into the phone as doing things the wrong way or just in the wrong order may damage stuff, they belong on PSUs so curious idiots don't kill themselves, such applications.