For example, coming into effect in 12 days, on the 20th of June, for smartphones and tablets:

• Durability: Devices should be resistant to accidental drops and protected against dust and water.

• Battery longevity: Batteries must endure at least 800 full charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their original capacity.

• Repairability: Manufacturers must make critical spare parts available within 5 to 10 working days, and continue offering them for 7 years after the product is no longer sold in the EU.

• Software support: Devices must receive operating system upgrades for at least 5 years from the end-of-sale date.

• Repair access: Professional repairers must have non-discriminatory access to any required software or firmware.

They will also have to include a sticker on packaging that has standardised information on it concerning energy efficiency, battery life, repeated drop test results, battery endurance in charging cycles, repairability score, and water/dust protection rating:

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I’m staggered so many people seem to think TikTok isn’t used to sway public opinions.

It’s not new technology you numpty.

It’s not news. It’s not a scientific paper. Wireless energy transfer isn’t “bullshit”, it’s been an understood aspect of physics for a long time.

Since you seem unable to grasp the concept, I’ll put it in bold and italics:

This is a video of a guy doing a DIY project where he wanted to make his setup as wireless as possible. In the video he also goes over his thoughts and design considerations, and explains how the tech works for people who don’t already know.

It is not new technology.

It is not pseudoscience.

It is a guy showing off his bespoke PC setup.

It does not need an article or a blog post. He can post about it in any form he wants.

Personally, I think showcasing this kind of thing in a video is much better than a wall of text. I want to see the process, the finished product, the tools used and how he used them.

It’s a YouTube channel that does high quality DIY projects, and explains the reasons behind the choices made.

Why would this be an article as opposed to, y’know, a video? His job is to make YouTube videos.

I don’t understand this obsession some on Lemmy have with shitting on hard-working creative types when they make something in video form rather than creating a blog and publishing articles.

I’m somewhat surprised there isn’t a Fedora there, it’s a pretty great and up-to-date distro. And pretty popular.

I’m also surprised Flatpak isn’t higher!

Google makes a lot of money, and summarising stuff uses a surprisingly small amount of energy. You can do it trivially on-device on a laptop and on plenty of phones.

When it comes to LLMs, training the models is generally the thing that requires ridiculous amounts of energy.

This is dumb as fuck, though. I don’t want Google’s LLM to miss out critical details in my emails. That shit could be important. If people want this they should opt in.

Manjaro keeps popping up on devices, and I don’t understand how they keep getting these deals.

It’s seemingly the only thing they are competent at doing.

12% faster on average, with anywhere from a 30-320% battery life improvement.

Just from a software change.

That is massive. You’d usually need a hardware upgrade for an improvement like that.

To be completely honest, I am a little annoyed about all the people bringing up price.

Well I’m so sorry you’re offended (not really), but price is relevent when you’re comparing products.

If I was looking at a comparison between two watches and the reviewer brings up price, I’d consider that relevant information.

saying that the price being free adds to the word “massive” being used aptly is just kinda dumb for real.

Again, you’re just so wrong.

If product A is better than product B, that’s bad enough. If product A also happens to be free while product B costs over $100, then that’s extremely notable and should be brought up in a comparison.

Maybe it’s your line of thinking that’s just kinda dumb for real?

It’s just like people don’t want to converse man.

You’re such a victim. Oh wait, it’s you that started being hostile and dismissive. You’re the one who doesn’t want to have a respectful discussion.

When you talk like that, you shouldn’t expect people to treat you nicely in return. People are under no obligation to treat you nicely after you treat them poorly.

It’s pretty clear that talking to you is useless

Indeed. You do seem to struggle with differing opinions, as well as the definitions of words, like how you struggle to understand there’s a massive difference in performance between Windows and SteamOS on this handheld.

I’m not glorifying shit, I’m just pointing out how very, very wrong you are.

A 12% performance boost on average, simultaneously with a battery life improvement of up to 320%, requiring nothing but a software change is massive, especially when that software is free.

Who the hell brought up price? Certainly not me

Are you purposely being a clown? I brought up price, because it’s relevant in comparing two things.

Why are you so butt hurt that SteamOS is massively better on some handheld you probably don’t even own? Why are you so hurt by this news?

Donations and grants.

It’s so frustrating that we have all this technology, and we choose to use it for bad purposes.

Yes. Massively. And I don’t know why you’re doubling down on being wrong.

12% faster with anywhere from 34% to 320% better battery life, and $130 cheaper is massively better, especially on the exact same hardware.

The difference is astonishing, tbh. I’d have expected a negligible difference.

Massively better was completely correct, and you are wrong to state otherwise. It’s that simple.

Alyx is not HL3, and I don’t get it when people say it is.

HL2E2 ended and we were left partway through a story that never received an ending.

You are genuinely the first other person I’ve ever seen online who seems aware that this was an industry-wide thing, not a VW thing.

If it makes you feel any better, all brands had illegally high emissions. People only tie it to VW so much because they were the first to be tested, and they owned up to it, meaning media could call them out on it without fear of libel.

VW wasn’t even close to the worst offender.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diesel_emissions_scandal

Wikipedia has a far wider reach, doesn’t have competitors in quite the same way Mozilla does, and needs far less money than Mozilla.

It takes hundreds of millions every year to maintain a modern web engine, have top-tier security, etc. It’s harder than maintaining an OS, even.

I just don’t see enough people getting in on that.

You mention Patreon. Alright, let’s go with that. The largest Patreon project by far earns less than $3m per year. Mozilla would need probably 150x that.

Maybe you would. The vast vast majority wouldn’t.

Not many people care about privacy from big tech, and those that do probably know what FOSS is and would know that they can trivially get Firefox for free.

I also doubt that Mozilla could get the hundreds of millions per year that they need to maintain a modern web browser engine, keep up to date on security, etc.

A human also (hopefully anyway) wouldn’t drive if you put a cone over their head.

Like yeah, if you purposely block the car’s vision, it should refuse to drive.