Yes if they’ve lasted decades thats their job done. Now people are buying usb C headphones and there is no need to continue to support decades old standards. The ewaste from a pair of headphones is tiny so its not worth fretting over.

Also BT headphones last longer than 2 years. Mine are 1st gen samsung buds and going on 5 years at this point and still hold enough charge to listen to music during my work day. If im going to be using them all day I have 1 in and 1 charging in the case and then I can easily have music for 10+ hours on a 5 year old device. If I threw them away today I would consider them to have not been ewaste.

I use wireless charging every single day and majority of my non techie friends do as well. Its so convenient to have a wireless charger on the desk and put your phone there. They are dirt cheap as well.

No one has been using aux cable mobile headphones for the past 10 years. Headphone jack is e-waste at this point. bluetooth audio is great and if you really want to be a boomer you can use the usb C headphones.

oh man I have so many things to learn.

but im lazy and I dont want to have to manually do it every time 😅

Socalism is about owning a share of your workplace. Its got nothing to do with free healthcare or caring for the community

nah i wont be plugging anything in. Just laptopping. But im not going to grab the m1 laptop and ill grab the 2019 intel one instead.

Its not a waste of time, its very useful. I can see how a robot such as yourself wouldnt understand.

You can spend your 8 hours a day in a cubicle and I will spend it having fun and working along side people I genuinely like.

It is. The SSDs have two methods of managing this. The first is to simply skip the bad block. The second is to replace the badblock address with a good block from the SSDs reserve block storage. This is all done by the SMART controller in the SSD.

Thank you, this is a great resource.

is the HDR display working? I think I might not get it since it sounds like a lot of trouble. There are 2019 intel macbooks that might make a better linux laptop

I dont even know what Thunderbolt is so I probably wont miss it, however no gpu hardware acceleration must hurt quite a bit. Do you notice it to be sluggish?

Oh then you’re cooked. Those are 100% scam drives.

There is some software you can get to check for bad blocks and then mark them do not write. This will allow you to salvage as much of the drive as possible. I recently got a dead 4tb drive fully restored and working. I hope you are as lucky!

I want to kick your city in the nuts. How could you gut parks and libraries.

I have friends and live with friends and I still feel lonely when working remotely. I like hybrid the most because sometimes i need to just go into work and talk about the things im working on with people who actually understand (not work related talks just for fun)

I dont think its for profit being the issue. Companies making a profit is fine. Its publicly traded companies giving bad incentives.

• provide free app at a loss

• grow massive user base and market share

• squeeze your userbase for every cent they’re worth

Every single time. We got to solve the funding issue some how, I dont want to live in a future run by ads.

I genuinely do not understand why people do not like reading. Im not a super nerd and only read a few books a year but I look at the hours i spent reading those books as some of the best entertainment i’ve had all year.

I’ve been buying old flagship phones and they seem to last a while. I got the S9 for under $300 NZD and its still going even with no security updates. I then got the S10 for some family and thats still going good.

If you want a cheap phone 2nd hand refurbished versions of good phones are in my opinion the best way to go.