• apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    That’s exactly my point. Regulation for support should be significantly longer and more comprehensive for these profit hoarding companies. Regulation should also require that once a device is unsupported, a company should have to open source the firmware along with repairable hardware.

    The oceans of ewaste will not end but it might certainly reduce it.

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      2 months ago

      It would go so much further than just abandoning them, definitely. Especially when the hardware is perfectly fine.

      I’ve got a Nexus 10 that’s still putting in work with postmarketos. The battery needed to be replaced recently, but its otherwise a perfectly usable device. A huge portion of my hardware consists of older and discontinued devices I can breathe some life into, because why wouldn’t I?

      I know corporate reasoning is that I wouldn’t buy a new device. And they are right, because I shouldn’t have to.

      Such a frustratingly straightforward answer to better support consumers, manage waste, slow climate change, etc, etc, etc…