I don’t know the legislation word by word but I do know it requires that the repair is possible without specialised equipment. How should a simple consumer without special tools apply a precise torque.
Changing a phone battery should be simpler than repairing a car and the regulation also requires it to be simpler.
You are boycotting eurovision because of a single country that is participating (when watching it for free is giving them not a single benefit), yet at the same time have no problem pouring money into one of the most immoral gambling sites, run by US tech oligarchs? Something does not quite add up here. I could get the first part bit the second is beyond me.
Oh, you don’t understand. US customers expect their phones to survive one month at a water depth of 11 km, so sadly it is impossible to let them have easily repairable batteries … /s
Requiring specific torque values are certainly violating the regulation as that would either require specialised tools are expertise that can’t be expected from regular customers. It also is not necessary for securing water and dust protection. Single use seals are fine as the focus is repair, not battery capacity extension vua battery swap.
We will see bug this regilation has already real impact today. The new Neo from Apple is surprisinglx modular and its battery easy to replace with nothing more than s screw driver. Previous laptops were horrendous in this regard. Of course, that is only because Apple found its love for repairability and is not already preparing for the above regulation. Turns out also modern phone batteries can be easily replaceable. You’ll see in a year.
Nothing was negative about it other than Apple’s manevolent compliance.
I am slightly worried by anti-vaxxers being Simpsons fans. Do they understand what they are watching?
Not necessarily, if they are more hostile towards that kind of “content” than in this case Spotify, it isn’t necessarily more attractive to AI scammers.
Indeed. Its service is available in only a limited number of countries. Interestingly though it is one of the oldest streaming platforms around.
I personally started to use Qobuz. Their algorithm isn’t great, their target group is more the more distinguished music listener but their library is pretty much as big as any others plus they do have the largest library of hi-res music too and they actually sell also hi-res and CD lossless music if that is of interest to you. Most importantly though, they have a “ban-AI-music” stance on their platform. Soon enough, one will have to rely on platforms like that if one does not want to wade through a sea of AI slop.
The downside is that Qobuz is a bit more expensive than others (while paying the most to artists however, as far as I know).
It is a less shitty alternative to Spotify, while costing less. They are also paying artists considerably more.
You did by claiming "VdL 's EU"is somehow worse than Russia. That is utterly absurd. It wrongly implies that the EU is somehow owned by VdL like Russia is owned by Putin. Unsurprisingly you did not even specify in which way exactly things are worse in the EU.
Yes comrade, Russia good! Thumps chest.
I am plenty critical of the US regime and of Europe too. Unlike you I don’t glorify the Russian dictatorship however, that is currently waging a bloody war of conquest, attempting the ethnic cleansing of Ukraine, while making the surveillance state in Russia worse by the day, with heavy censorship, persecuting any kind of independent protest, persecuting any organisation not approved by the regime and now making even consumption of non approved news sources a crime. Also attempting to push a state controlled super app to surveil every single step of every single person.
Is everything fine in the EU? Absolutely not but show me what is worse in terms if civil liberties, compared to Russia.
Talking to me about grey areas while telling me that VdL is worse than Putin.
Good comrade, move to your blood soaked imperialist totalitarian utopia that is modern day Russia. No one is stopping you.
Projection, as always.
Thing is, they claim that they care about religion. Not sure how many deadly sins they are gobbling up with all of that because something doesn’t add up.
Casually ignoring the Single Market, which surely is of no significance when it comes to trade. Seems to be a pattern at Visual Capitalist.
That’s all I wanted as response.
A lot of text and still not a single word about what exactly that she is saying that makes it cringe for you.
There are two possibilities. Either the right torque is critical for successful repair. In which case skill is required with simple equipment that cannot be expected from a simple consumer, or the torque has such a high tolerance that the error margin is what a regular screw driver use would comply with, and therefore no torque has to be specified in the repair manual, other than maybe qualitative statements.