Hoping many European Union people, all of us, keep pushing for these to happen too by adding these onto what we want:
- Making open source be one of the primary objectives across the whole EU
- Mandating phones to have higher storage so 2-8+TB
- Mandating that Apple needs to allow open-source apps, and being able to change OS fully on Apple Devices. So not being locked down in every way. Same for Android with their upcoming action to lock it down. Allowing people to put Linux on their devices
- Having affordable online education available for people around the world to make use of. Can just be the basics up to uni. Having it be where the education is able to be used by the student in their own and neighboring countries only.
- Making Internet Service Providers, and the infrastructure be owned by the people through cooperation’s, etc be more commonplace
- Making JavaScript be owned by the people and fully open-sourced in Europe (Not trademarked, and kept locked down. This is holding the Web back a lot)
- Making it where Car Manufacturers need to give documentation and have the software be fully open-sourced so people can change/modify the CarOS, and make sure it is not tampered with at all by anybody
- Videogames have to work offline (Ubisoft/EA/Etc for example)
- Videogames having to offer the ability to run community-run servers when the game shuts down
Things get better when we all collectively get things done. We will get to what we all want that are beneficial to all European Union people!!
While we are at it, the size of the batteries should also be standardized. If the battery in my laptop is dead after 6 years, I should be able to get a replacement from any electronics store from some reliable brand, similar to aa, AAA or AAA batteries. Right now it feels like each gadget invents its own battery size and capacity that it stops manufacturing 6 months after the product hits the market.
What a messy “proposition”!
A bunch of questinable suggestions, picked randomly around mobile phones generally and (for some weird reason) specific manufacturers
- and slapping in some general claims about affordability of education.
…WUT?!
Like, what are you even specifically targeting?!
Do some actual work, choose a topic. Collect data. Analyze it.
Focus! Choose things/ideas/challenges…/ONE thing you THINK you understand and you THINK you can tackle…
Because when you don’t do at least those things - you get a messy bunch of random things put together.8+TB storage in phones? Putting that much data on a mobile device is kinda nutty. Of you have that much data you need to access on your phone regularly I’d strongly advise hosting whatever service is eating up that much space somewhere else and just having your phone connect to it.
Ok maybe 8TB is overkill (or good for future proofing) but 1-4TB is a reasonable ask at least haha.
For me personally it would be for videogames (Retro/Gamenative for Steam & GOG/Open Source Android games), and shows/films I own. Also, for fangames, animation, and comics creation of projects I am making.
Rather have it and not need it yet rather than need it and not have it. Phone storage technology has been complacent for long enough now too.
Making that mandatory would make phones much more expensive and most people (me included) would just not need that much storage.
How about pushing for expandable storage? Might not be as fast (i.e. with SD cards), but seems more doable to me
Nah just host all that stuff somewhere and access it remotely. That level of inbuilt storage in a device just drives up the cost of it massively. Failing that just get a device with removable storage and stick a big SD card in it.
I thought the thumbnail was butter for a second
Haha it does look like it now that you mention it
I don’t get the higher storage one. 256 GB is plenty in many cases. What do people store on their phones anyways? A bunch of photos and videos that they’re never gonna look at again? I don’t think the EU should mandate more expensive phones just because some people are glued to their phones and take pictures of everything. Such crazy storage demands would double the price of budget phones. Mandating external SD cards might be a good idea though.
I like a lot of the other ones though. I would even add one. Critical infrastructure should not be allowed to be for profit. Water, railroads, networks, healthcare, some parts of financial systems, etc. Operarors on this infrastructure can compete for all I care as long as anyone can make use of the infrastructure.
8 TB of data storage on once portable device is stupid. that’s eventually 8TB lost.
Did you mean some? What is soke?
Yes I meant some
Mandating that Apple needs to allow open-source apps, and being able to change OS fully on Apple Devices. So not being locked down in every way. Same for Android with their upcoming action to lock it down. Allowing people to put Linux on their devices
Also force Samsung to use fastboot instead of Odin because the fact that you have to basically use leaked tools from Samsung just to flash an Android ROM is insane.
Having affordable online education available for people around the world to make use of.
Many books come with codes that you input into some system. And the books are relatively cheap (30€ max in Slovakia) plus many countries have reduced VAT on them.
Making it where Car Manufacturers need to give documentation and have the software be fully open-sourced so people can change/modify the CarOS, and make sure it is not tampered with at all by anybody
Won’t happen because of a mandatory car black box
Which has nothing to do. There is no reason why it should not be open source and, beside, even if eCall is a black box, all the other software on the car can be open source and/or documented.
Right, the eCall black box is a perfect example of how this other stuff could be implemented, at least according to my layman understanding. There is a set of standardized minimum functionality and a set of optional functionality. All related to telematics control. There could be a requirement that manufacturers use a clear standardized interface for entertainment/comfort and a clear separation between those and critical functions, so that those could be handled by user replaceable software/hardware. Feels like that would be a step up from what we have now, where I’ve been in a modern car (2024 BYD) and connecting androidauto caused the entertainment computer to crash and the dashboard to go blank for about 60 seconds while I was driving down the highway. I can understand including a display buffer to push some entertainment content onto the dashboard, but there should be separation.
Next step after all this would be to ask what parts of this really benefit from being proprietary. Maybe if we had better standards between components we would get better repairability.
