A portable battery should be considered to be removable by the end-user when it can be removed with the use of commercially available tools and without requiring the use of specialised tools, unless they are provided free of charge, or proprietary tools, thermal energy or solvents to disassemble it. Commercially available tools are considered to be tools available on the market to all end users without the need for them to provide evidence of any proprietary rights and that can be used with no restriction, except health and safety-related restrictions.

I’m glad they got specific. I wonder where Apple’s self-service battery replacement program falls under this? AFAIK it’s not free. They charge a fee to rent the specialized tools, which are also proprietary.

This gives Apple a few choices:

1. Make the tools commercially available, but at an astronomical price in typical Apple fashion
2. Make the tools commercially available at a normal consumer price (unlikely)
3. Make the self-service battery replacement program free (most likely, but will require a significant revision to the tools used since they are industrial-grade)

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I’ve always referred to Reddit and other forum type sites as “anti-social media”.

Nobody’s here to gain clout. Nobody’s here to get more followers. Nobody’s here to try and be famous.

We’re here because it’s anonymous (if you want it to be), and because it’s fundamentally different from mainstream social networking sites.

It was an event where one user can change the color of a single pixel at a time, choosing from a predefined color palette. There was a cooldown on how often you were allowed to color a pixel, 5 minutes or something, I don’t remember.

It was a fun way for communities to band together and draw pixel art over the course of a week or so. It was fun the first time because it was spontaneous and there weren’t very many bots, if any. After that, it was just a competition of who paid for the most bot accounts so they could camp a space to keep a clear picture. Completely lost its draw IMO (no pun intended).

How about we don’t talk about it at all?

We have a long ways away before the human population will be wiped out due to climate change. Most likely around 100 or so years.

You realize that would be the grandchildren of people alive today, right? That’s VERY soon lol…

What if we just, like… don’t talk about it at all?