• sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    1 month ago

    Buy used pixel, put calyxos or grapheneos on it…

    Deny these corpos your data. You are feeding your enemies otherwise.

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      1 month ago

      I agree that breaking them up would do some good, but in the case at hand you would just have a longer list of companies working together to defeat r2r.

      If you could break them into very small pieces (e.g. split Google’s Android line into 6 different companies instead of 2), then you might see some competing for repairability against Fairphone. But still maybe a long shot. I walk into a phone shop and have 10s of different brands and not a single one of them has tried to go after the built-for-long-life market. Fairphone is alone on that AFAICT.

      I think the only way out of this is to ban the environmentally detrimental practices of burying batteries in glue and booby trapping toothbrushes to self-destruct when opened. Because there will always be enough zombie consumer masses willing to buy that shit.