burretploof

burretploof, 9 months ago

What she’s describing is incredibly awful. That’s not your average toxic workplace… I hope she’s doing better now.

I would love to think that this stuff isn’t true, but considering the red flags given off by Linus in recent weeks and months (his anti-union comments, for example), as well as the allegations made by Naomi Wu, the leaked employee handbook with its questionable contents, as well as the anonymous (ex-)employee describing a hostile work environment on the LTT subreddit some time ago… it kinda just fits, you know?

In any case, let’s wait and see how this plays out, but right now it’s not looking good for LMG. I don’t think they will shut down in any case, but surely something is going to happen.

burretploof, 10 months ago

I was using Jerboa but it seems a little unstable, had it crash on me a number of times.

Currently I'm using wefwef as a Chrome app thing.

https://wefwef.app

burretploof, 11 months ago

I'm happy to be here. Lemmy seems like a good place so far. I'm not sure if it will take off in the long term (I think a lot of people don't "get" the whole federated thing, just like with Mastodon), but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

burretploof, 11 months ago

It would be cool if the dev(s) came out with a version for Lemmy, too. rif is my favorite reddit app and I'd love to be able to access Lemmy from a version of it.

burretploof, 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Probably kinda likely, I think?

Manufacturing, storing, shipping and supporting two different models of basically the same phone is probably more expensive than just deploying the one model with the removable battery everywhere.

To elaborate a bit: This is very different than providing models with different radios/modems for different markets. A different radio/modem probably only requires a single, different component(?). A model with a replacable battery requires a different battery design, a different case design, different seals (to make it waterproof) and most likely a different PCB layout, too. That is a tremendous amount of effort compared to swapping out a component or two on an otherwise identical phone.

That's why I think it's not unlikely that replacable batteries might become much more common globally once this law is being implemented and applied.