Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.
Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.
We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.
@thibaultamartin@postmarketOS@gnome We need a legal obligation to release of all relevant code and schematics for all chipsets that are no longer supported by the manufacturer.
I'm still on an old Pixel 2, running an "ancient"¹ GrapheneOS. I replaced the battery, but it works fine.
It's also a security risk, which i'm well aware of. This shouldn't be the case.
I hate how the Internet distorts our relationship to time, i should probably write something about that one of these days.
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Most of what I'd like from a phone, is breaking through all the vendor DRM, secrets act crap, which is way more likely for an older phone.
I Could totally cope with nucurses UI, some network access and an OpenSource messaging program with scripted ability to launch sub-processes
No alternative is proposing a truly stripped down Linux for these phones, it's all Android or jailbroken iOS
Basically it's just the battery that wears down. I remember reviving my old Nokia several times with a new pack. But of course that doesn't fly with shareholder value or whatever so they glue them in, without laws that prohibit that on penalty of hefty fines they will keep doing that of course. To sway politics the first order of duty is to kick out the lobbyists (from any industry), it's all quite simple, follow the money basically.
@thibaultamartin@postmarketOS@gnome numbers seem wrong. There are 8 billion people in the world. Seems wierd about 1 phone per person is thrown away each year.
@DrorBedrack@thibaultamartin@postmarketOS@gnome It's silly. The BBC article appears to expect that every phone not currently being used (in many cases for years) will suddenly be thrown away this year. Why?
@thibaultamartin@postmarketOS@gnome We need to stop all the big tech semi forcing obsolescence on phones, computers etc, by updating OS in ways that prevent older devices working.
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