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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste (www.bbc.com)
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Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves - This sustainable smartphone aims to reduce global electronic waste::In a bid to reduce global electronic waste, Fairphone has created a smartphone that owners can repair themselves. What makes its technology so sustainable?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, in a better world where the people have control of the means of production, we wouldn't care at all about financial return when making something. We'd make it to work well and to last and to be repairable, just like current open source hardware is. We'd make it for us.