• Ilandar@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      8
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 months ago

      Changable batteries, maybe, for the environment. But I’ve never used a phone long enough for this to matter because unoptimized software starts crippling phones after 4 years anyway.

      This is absolute bollocks. Unless you are buying dogshit budget phones, they all continue to run fine after 4 years. I have phones from 2017 and 2018 that continue to operate without major issue today. Until very recently most Android phones weren’t even receiving feature updates beyond 4 years so I suspect you’ve just completely fabricated this story to justify your upgrades.

        • Ilandar@aussie.zone
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          2
          ·
          3 months ago

          People lie to themselves all the time to justify wasteful consumerism.

            • Ilandar@aussie.zone
              link
              fedilink
              English
              arrow-up
              4
              arrow-down
              1
              ·
              3 months ago

              The OnePlus 12 was released less than a year ago. It has 3 1/2 years of software changes ahead of it. You are proving my point here by implying a 7 month old phone needs to be replaced after a single bad update.

                • Ilandar@aussie.zone
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  4
                  arrow-down
                  1
                  ·
                  3 months ago

                  That’s not what you said originally:

                  unoptimized software starts crippling phones after 4 years

                  So you admit that age is not actually the relevant factor here? Your complaint is bad updates, not the age of a device. And if bad updates are the problem, which you admitted they aren’t for you when you said you’d “never used a phone long enough for this to matter” then your claim that replaceable batteries are irrelevant is also nonsensical. It’s as I suspected: you’ve concocted some weird fictional narrative as a coping mechanism for the cognitive dissonance that comes with repeatedly replacing phones that are absolutely fine.

    • AbidanYre@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      ·
      3 months ago

      I don’t even really care about fast charging. As long it can fully charge while I’m asleep I don’t care if it takes all night.