I don’t know if the changes coming into affect today have something different about replaceable batteries, but the 2027 replaceable battery requirement has this as the exemption:
2. By way of derogation from paragraph 1, the following products incorporating portable batteries may be designed in such a way as to make the battery removable and replaceable only by independent professionals:
(a) appliances specifically designed to operate primarily in an environment that is regularly subject to splashing water, water streams or water immersion, and that are intended to be washable or rinseable;
(b) professional medical imaging and radiotherapy devices, as defined in Article 2, point (1), of Regulation (EU) 2017/745, and in vitro diagnostic medical devices, as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2017/746.
The only thing there Apple could even pretend is “washable or rinsable”, and I’d be shocked* if they could get away with that.
*not that shocked
Since the title gives nothing away:
This is an extensive article by Ed Zitron on how the technology that you’re required to interact with every day has become explicitly user hostile. It’s a 42 minute read, but IMO worth reading at least the first section.
Ed Zitron also has an excellent podcast on the topic of tech companies being awful called “Better Offline”
That kind of sucks, but it should only be for a dev release
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp-data/-/blob/main/images/splash-log.md
Thanks for bringing that up, I played the shit out of Blinx 2 back when and had all but forgotten it.
Incidentally my first thought reading your comment was “Prince of Persia: Sands of Time”
These guys are Canadian and I’ve always thought their tech seemed really creative and novel
This article seems to have a bizarre assumption all the way through that the schools must use Microsoft 365.
Obviously Microsoft is failing morally and probably legally (what else is new), but the schools also have a moral and legal requirement to choose software which protects the rights of the children. Microsoft is sort of right in the way they surely didn’t mean; schools have the responsibility to not use Microsoft 365.
Props for finally doing it, but a modding API was promised more than 10 years ago!
It wasn’t even blue on Windows 10, it was the accent color.