Polymath

For some bizarre reason, although I prefer and lean towards certified refurbished electronics in like every other arena and regularly suggest them to friends and family, I hadn’t considered one here, for my next cell phone. Thank you for this so-simple suggestion! 🤦‍♀️

It is important to note here how well-indoctrinated the US and Europe are to “point the finger” and absolve responsibility…

We don’t refer to stuff as “deforestation,” we call it “urban planning” or “development.”
We don’t talk about “poaching,” we just accept that farmers and the agriculture industry finds natural predators inconvenient, so we allow them to kill off coyotes, foxes, mountain lions, etc.

We have just as many people doing similar, but for some reason we’re only taught to lose our minds over conservation elsewhere, in the places where the US intentionally destabilizes (with Europe) to keep prices low for us. After all, it’s what our economies are built upon: ruin everywhere, so we can call ourselves the heroes for killing off indigenous folks to areas just for the crime of living and wanting things to feel fair.

Check yourself. This isn’t “the way”

I tried Ctrl+F searching to see whether anyone here had pasted the link to the law, and didn’t find anything, so I went to Presearch and found this, which appears to be the official European Union log for it, and has attached PDFs at the end with what seem to be the nitty-gritty for further reading…

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023/07/10/council-adopts-new-regulation-on-batteries-and-waste-batteries/

If I’ve found an errant page that just looks official, please link something better for those looking for the legalese

Next up: SCREENS.

I long for the day that a cracked screen becomes a simple swap-out fix.

Especially since so many corporate shitlords seem to intentionally “engineer obsolescence” by making them not very durable to even minor drops with reasonable cases (or various other bizarre things, like pets jumping up while you’re taking a picture or similar)

I should also ask, how long have you had it (it appears that the release date was just shy of 2 years ago; 30 September 2021), and do you thus far anticipate it continuing usage several years into the future, or does it seem like after 2 years of usage you might be headed towards needing to get another/new phone?

Longevity is another of my main wishes/desires

On my way!! Thank you!!

(Not trying to be combative/pedantic/“devil’s advocate”)
What kind of phone do you personally use, and/or prefer, that’s more user-friendly, as opposed to user-hostile?

I’m not necessarily opposed to anything specifically, and trying to find less-corporate alternatives that are, ideally, more eco-friendly or whatnot, but obviously “no ethical consumption under capitalism” and all. Fairphone is just the least corporate and eco-fucked thing I’ve found thus far that’s reasonable with current technology and interoperability.

Thoughts? Suggestions??