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that’s actually huge if true.

if your 25 year old car head gasket blows, does it matter it’s fixable if it costs 2k to fix? it’s being scrapped for another beater.

now transport this analogy to 5 year old phones, except 5 years old is not much.

i literally just told you.

you seem to have answered your own question.

if i can’t cheaply repair an old board, or source parts, it’s not repairable.

upgrading is part of what makes old computers still usable.

depends on what you need repaired. and upgrades are a big no too.

yeah, it’s nice in that context.

in fact, it’s something that could have been a thing for a while, they had phones doing this in 2012ish.

android is pretty locked down, and being locked down further this year to allow only google-sanctioned software. following this trend will see actually unlocked and repairable computers replaced by locked phones. pixels are better than average but not available everywhere.

are the ifixit guides gonna help me replace the busted storage chip that renders my phone unbootable? i can just replace it for cheap on my laptop.

I guess?

Enabling people to minimize the number of devices they need

this is literally the biggest issue here. relying on a country that doles out sanctions and bombings like it’s parking tickets.

and increasing reliance on google and the aforementioned empire for underpowered computing is not a positive at all.

yay, locked down unrepairable computers owned by a us company that aids in war and surveillance!

i hope they keep this up until i need a new phone

why people still go out of their way to appease this authority is beyond me.