(Justin)

Tech nerd from Sweden

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  • On non-Fairphones, which tend to have larger batteries and lower power consumption batteries tend to be usable for much longer. We are talking 3-5 years there.

    No way.

    Get the battery replaced once in the phone’s lifetime at a local 3rd party repair shop for €100 wait for half an hour and get your phone back.

    These shops only service iPhones and Samsungs, there’s only like 1-2 shops in Stockholm that repair Pixels and Xiaomis at all, let alone whatever 3 year old model you have. Not to mention things like screen and USB port repairs cost 100-200€ more than the fairphone parts.

    (Fairphone tends to have availability issues with spare parts. For example, right now the FP5 battery is out of stock.)

    I’ve had to wait a month for a fairphone battery before, but it’s not like they’re discontinued. I can imagine battery warehousing costs more than screens and USB ports.









  • That is not the argument stated in the article

    Sánchez argued that Spain doesn’t need to spend 5 percent of its GDP to fulfill its so-called capability targets, meaning new objectives of weapons inventory agreed by NATO defense ministers earlier this month.

    He also wrote that a 5 percent defense spending goal would jeopardize the country’s welfare system, force the government to increase taxes on the middle class, scale back commitments to the green transition and curtail international development cooperation.

    “It is the legitimate right of every government to decide whether or not they are willing to make those sacrifices,” he wrote.

    Rushing to 5 percent would also force Madrid to buy off-the-shelf equipment instead of fostering its own industrial base, as well as take money away from welfare policies, Sánchez also wrote.

    The Spanish Socialist party is in a coalition with the junior left-wing Sumar party, which opposes increased defense spending and whose members are expected to attend a counter-summit for peace in parallel to the NATO summit.