• haui@lemmy.giftedmc.comOPM
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      8 months ago

      apple does the same with their stuff. I have a perfectly working ipad2 and it is ewaste at this point. Its one more reason why I made this community. It doesnt hurt anyone to make their old hardware jailbreakable but they actively work against it. We will at some point start writing open letters to the EU and other regulators to ask for a law that requires companies to make their devices jailbreakable after they go out of support because its a huge security risk and an environmental catastrophe.

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        8 months ago

        Its one more reason why I made this community.

        fucking subscribed and THANK YOU, this shit needs to be stopped. the only way is to tell them NO en mass, this is a great resource.

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          8 months ago

          What point are you trying to make? The processor, ram and ssd still work. I only need a different OS which I have the experience to install but apple hardware locked the device so it becomes e waste. Its totally okay that they stop supporting stuff but they must be required by law to open the devices after that period. Its why I made a petition about it today on change.org.

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            8 months ago

            hey i’m not against what you’re trying to accomplish, and wouldn’t be surprised if it happens in the EU. i was just pointing out that 5 years isn’t long and 13 years is a long time in terms of consumer electronics.

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              8 months ago

              Why do we see 13 years as a long time though? Because the corporations want us to. My laptop from 10 years ago still works perfectly fine.

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              8 months ago

              You‘re correct and the fact that apple makes devices that go that long is astonishing. But it still has nothing to do with the fact that they are bricking devices actively.

              Btw, I have a laptop of the same age running perfectly fine on lubuntu. So its obvious which is better.