this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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Right to Repair/Ownership

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde "oem" parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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Honestly, if we could upgrade the RAM in phones, I'd probably be fine with this one for a decade. (Or until they start making phones with qwerty keypads again.)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's a lot of fake SD cards on the market, worth checking it before putting anything important on it. I find that if you can put more than eight gig of data on it without it getting corrupted then it's probably real

[–] WhoRoger 4 points 1 year ago

This one is from a reliable source, but I will test it either way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

There's an Windows executable your can use to check, it does the writing and read checking for you. H2 something iirc.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Congrats! And holy shit, having a way of upgrading RAM in a phone is something that never crossed my mind! This would extend life of phones by so much.

[–] WhoRoger 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's no reason why at least the motherboard couldn't be a replaceable module if one is happy with cameras and display, or the other way around. Not saying it has to be super simple like plugging in a Lego module, but it's definitely doable. Most peripherals are borderline off the shelf anyway and their functionality and support is mostly in software.

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

We need a company for phones that's like framework for laptops.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A fewhavextried but sadly failed. If they just made the phones less difficult to modify people could still at least have local technicians change components

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

I had a bunch of these these crappy keypads. I mean one that's in the phone, that I can use in lieu of the touch keyboard, while holding it in its normal position. If I'd want to put my device on a table and type while sitting in a chair, I'd rather use a small laptop.