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Cake day: August 22nd, 2023
  • brisk@aussie.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.ml•The EU smartphone repairability law will take effect on 20 June
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    14 days ago

    I don’t know if the changes coming into affect today have something different about replaceable batteries, but the 2027 replaceable battery requirement has this as the exemption:

    Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1542 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 July 2023 concerning batteries and waste batteries

    2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the following products incorporating portable batteries may be designed in such a way as to make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals:

    (a) appliances specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable;

    (b) professional medical imaging and radiotherapy devices, as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, and in vitro diagnostic medical devices, as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2017/746.

    The only thing there Apple could even pretend is “washable or rinsable”, and I’d be shocked* if they could get away with that.

    *not that shocked

  • brisk@aussie.zonetoFree and Open Source Software@beehaw.org•Markdown and the Slow Fade of the Formatting Fetish
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    2 months ago

    Some of this is the fault of the design of Word. Even modern versions have direct formatting in the Home tab, to the left (chronologically “before” for people used to left-to-right paradigms) of the styles box. The styles box itself becomes rapidly less accessible if the window is not full sized.

    If they moved direct formatting to a formatting tab, had a more focused concept of styles, and possibly repurposed some of the direct formatting buttons for quick style application, people would use them a lot more reliably without any training.

  • brisk@aussie.zonetoTechnology@beehaw.org•The inarguable case for banning social media for teens
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    2 months ago

    This is exactly the conversation that happened in Parliament over the Australian social media ban and its absurd.

    There is a broad recognition that in a regulatory vacuum corporate social media created toxic and addictive “engagement”-maximising algorithms that harm all facets of society exposed to them.

    So a solution is proposed: ban it for children.

    When exactly, did it become fine for corporations to actively and deliberately harm people as long as they were old enough? How about preventing the harm?

    It would be just as easy for a government to ban opaque and engagement maximising feed algorithms. But they went with the option that allows “tech” giants to keep harming the less marketable 80% of the population.