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Cake day: September 9th, 2025

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  • You used to be able to replace a battery just b taking a cover off, or use a physical, non-drm capable audio out from a phone. Then the companies decided that to shave a few pennies off the costs and at the same time make more people rely on buying a new phone or paying for repairs by taking those things away.

    I’m pretty sure they can survive taking a fraction of a percent less profit to build things in a way where you can replace a battery or screen without excessive work. Free market maximalism just leads to letting companies squeeze you for every penny they can, and on a longer scale continue to drive the disposable ‘buy don’t repair’ mentality so prevalent today in not just phones but virtually all common goods.