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By the way you're talking here I can tell you have no idea what you're talking about. Have you ever seen a cow be inseminated? Nothing about it is forceful. They don't give a flying fuck. They stand there and eat while a guy artificially inseminates them and they don't react at all. They do not care.

Ghee is not an oil. Other than that I agree.

This is what Reddit forgot. They don't implicitly provide any value, it's the community that provides the value. Reddit is just the place where people happen to post.

That's one of the things I really hate about this federation thing. The fact that communities can just defederate makes everything very unreliable.

I still lurk on Reddit because there's not enough content on here to keep me satisfied. Also I'm finding it hard to find stuff I like, I wish the interface was more similar to old Reddit.

It's not an amendment, this is the actual law as it is adopted. The other document was just the proposal.

very few phones are used primarily in an environment of water immersion

They don't have to be primarily used in that environment, they have to be designed to be used in that environment. The way this is worded is extremely broad and can basically mean anything you want it to mean. All current waterproof smartphones could fall under this exemption.

I love the EU and regulations like this but it always makes me sad when they make them broad and open to interpretation because that means corporations will find ways to get away with whatever they want.

Phones with battery covers can also be waterproof, it has been done before, we can still do it now. My Galaxy S5 was waterproof and it had a removable battery cover. That was almost 10 years ago, imagine what we can do now. USB ports are waterproof now and don't require a cover like they did on the S5.

Oh yes I completely support this law but as usual it leaves too much wiggle room for companies to be scummy.

You cannot have a consumer device at a reasonable price point, designed to provide water resilience, which also contains an open section to the power supply.

You certainly can. Look up any flagship smartphone and you can see that they provide water resilience and they have a charging port.

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/doceo/document/TA-9-2023-0237_EN.html#title2

2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the following products incorporating portable batteries may be designed in such a way as to make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals:

(a) appliances specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable;

(b) professional medical imaging and radiotherapy devices, as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, and in-vitro diagnostic medical devices, as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2017/746.

Three or more. My Nokia 3310 exploded into five pieces. Front plate, keypad rubber thingy, phone, battery and battery cover.

Misleading title. Phones can still be glued. Waterproof phones still don't need to have a user replaceable battery (the battery needs to be replaceable but by professionals).