TheGrandNagus @ TheGrandNagus @lemmy.world

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Haha, we can expect to see similar announcements from other manufacturers, because the EU now mandates software support for new devices.

Even if you're outside of the EU, you'll benefit from this. Since the OEMs have to do it anyway, they'll likely push the updates to all markets and market it as if they're being nice. Nope. They're just complying with the law to the bare minimum.

Starting on the 20th of June 2025 (just two days!), the EU is enforcing a minimum of 5 years of updates on all smartphone/tablets sold after they are withdrawn from the market.

I.e. if a model is sold for 2 years, it must receive software support for 7 years. Just like this Nothing Phone.

Source.

On the one hand, this is possibly dubious in that things that aren't generally considered to be part of defence will be used to inflate our defence spending numbers without actually spending more than previous (i.e. it's just a PR move)

But on the other hand, this could be immensely useful in telling the NIMBYs to fuck right off. What's that, you're opposing infrastructure improvements, new housing, or wind turbines? Aw, diddums, that's too bad. This is deemed critical for national security, and thus the government can give it approval regardless. Sorry Bernard, sorry Mary, your petition against any change in the area is going nowhere.

Ultrasonic fingerprint sensors aren't optical like the older under-screen ones. They don't need to go bright to get a reading.

This will not blind you.

The right advice but with the wrong motive lol

Good. This was one of the many things from the Tories that was kinda fucked up. Glad to see it dropped.

Americans say "86 [thing]" to mean "get rid of [thing]"

I thought Trump and Elon had a major falling out?

Actually now that I think of it, news about that fizzled out very quickly. Did they silently kiss and make up behind closed doors or something?

FFS an air fryer is a heating element, fan, and thermostat.

Why are any of them being built with online connectivity and data harvesting capabilities in the first place?!

Warmer weather means more riots. There's been multiple times where days of rain or a cold wind has put an end to riots, and they almost never happen in winter.

I can afford to pay the protection racket, I just choose not to.

I guess there's no reason not to post to other sites as well?

One codebase across all OSes and OS versions, no dependency issues, easy to push updates.

I'd prefer a native app myself, though.

Most likely one of the commercial ones that offer support and contractual guarantees of security patches, uptime, service, helpdesk support, etc.

So likely Ubuntu, SUSE, or RHEL.

Any of which would be a very welcome change and a benefit to the Linux community compared to using Windows.

If you want to be a photographer, get a camera.

🤦‍♀️

Even professional photographers don't have their cameras on them at all times, nor are they as convenient for just whipping out and taking a picture within 1.5s.

Plus, cameras are expensive and they're another thing to carry around (idk about you but I don't have infinite pocket space) and they're another thing to keep charged, whereas you have a phone with you at pretty much all times anyway, because they're effectively required for modern society.

You may as well be saying you don't understand why phones can play music when you can get an MP3 player, that you don't understand why they play videos because TVs exist, that you don't understand why they have web browsers and plenty of apps, because PCs exist.

I stick to my guns and I'm on the internet and computers to learn to educate myself, not to dick around with stupid shit.

He said, on this Lemmy thread.

And we have to be weary of open source

Ah yes, that nefarious Open Source software. Tell me more about the evils of FOSS, Mr Balmer.

I don't actually like this redesign tbh, but come on, people do care about design and UX.

Nobody said we need pretty UX design, it's just nice to have, and that's fine. Not everything needs to be furthering the development of XYZ. Beauty is fine, aesthetics is fine, art is fine.

But yeah, I don't have an Apple device and likely never will, so this specific instance doesn't matter to me.

For example, coming into effect in 12 days, on the 20th of June, for smartphones and tablets:

• Durability: Devices should be resistant to accidental drops and protected against dust and water.
• Battery longevity: Batteries must endure at least 800 full charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their original capacity.
• Repairability: Manufacturers must make critical spare parts available within 5 to 10 working days, and continue offering them for 7 years after the product is no longer sold in the EU.
• Software support: Devices must receive operating system upgrades for at least 5 years from the end-of-sale date.
• Repair access: Professional repairers must have non-discriminatory access to any required software or firmware.

They will also have to include a sticker on packaging that has standardised information on it concerning energy efficiency, battery life, repeated drop test results, battery endurance in charging cycles, repairability score, and water/dust protection rating:

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I'm staggered so many people seem to think TikTok isn't used to sway public opinions.

Starting on the 20th of June 2025, the EU is enforcing a minimum of 5 years of updates on all smartphone/tablets sold after they are withdrawn from the market.

I.e. if a model is sold for 2 years, it must receive software support for 7 years.

Even if you're outside of the EU, you'll benefit from this. Since the OEMs have to do it anyway, they'll likely push the updates to all markets and market it as if they're being nice.

Source.

In that case I'm sorry you failed to make the link.

Because – as I said – they are saying one thing and doing another.

From one side of their mouth they're saying nothing has changed, from the other they are using this as vindication for new anti-trans moves.

Now that I've again answered you, for the final time, are you going to address what I've been saying?

It feels like you're just arguing in bad faith for the sake of arguing, and I can't be bothered with that.