• RaoulDuke@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Good. Non-replaceable batteries benefit no one but device manufacturers and miners of lithium, cobalt, etc.

    • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi
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      1 year ago

      I don’t think it would really benefit or harm the lithium miners and battery manufacturers - in fact it might benefit them more if they could sell their batteries directly to consumers and skip the middleman, keeping those profits for themselves.

  • Thoralf Will@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    I do not like this, at all.

    I don’t want to replace my battery. I want my battery to last. 5 years, at least.

    This legislation will achieve the opposite and paves the way for batteries that are just crap and need replacement after 12 or 18 months. The companies have no motivation to make better batteries, protect them better against premature degradation.

    Sounds good, but generates a lot of trash.