I do have to say that the remoanings are annoying as heck

Enlarged crybabies

@fredeh probably not. He's supposedly in London for the celebrations.

Argh I wish I was in London :(

Anyhow, something that might make you happy you've left now: the EU decided to pass a law that requires all smartphones manufacturers to use a uniform port.
One of the most stupid piece of laws I've ever seen.

Another thing' it seems like the communists are part of the government in Spain, economic collapse imminent (or worse), luckily, you won't be there to suffer the fallout :)

no idea how this'll taste

sorta chucked a bunch of stuff in and see what happens

EU has a plethora of stupid laws.
Honestly, I think they are right that if they want to function, they need to become closer aligned. Fewer decision makers theoretically would make for better thought out laws, because there is more time to work shit out when you don't have everyone sticking their oar in. I just don't believe so many distinct nations desrve to have everything streamlined like that, because it'll take away part of what they are to further the cause of the elites.

https://twitter.com/InstituteGC/status/1223199957349519360

@juryrigging well, it's either that or going back to the ETA.

the phone port law was actually a good thing, have you even thought about that?

@system11 it has already happened,

"phone port law"

q'est?

The only one who isn't cooperating is apple

someone finally decided to tell phone manufacturers to stop fucking around forcing deliberate incompatability on chargers

it's anti consumer and environmentally garbage

Someone go and make me a cup of tea

that's one of the reason right-to-repair laws are failing to get in - manufacturers fucking around

i'd also ban irreplaceable batteries

in lots of things - game controllers, phones, etc

well that's apple gone

they're all as bad as each other

they know non-repairability is what gets people to replace their goods every 3 years

1. It's not for governments to decide.
2. There's already uniformality in ports.
3. The only outlier is apple

yup

yes its an apple law pretty much

there wasn't uniformity in ports

@Hopix do it yourself. It's called Independence 😛

While I do think they deserve a roast, governmenta meddling with such things is rather problematic.

@Eccles nowadays? Only apple doesn't conform with the port

This isn't a new law 🙂

Who decided the standard, though? Market forces or government?

I want the EU to make me a cup of tea

Well that didn't taste too bad, and the nearest I can come to describing what it was, was "beef and parsip ghoulash"

They've passed it today

And it's not only for smartphones though

It's still not what's needed

We need either full right-to-repair laws, or mandatory 10yr parts + labour warranties

Across consumer electronics and cars