UnstuckinTime

I think it just requires common tools, I do not think it's required to be hot swappable without any tools. But so far the final version of The legislation has not been written. The language you so far in reports is pretty vague.

There were waterproof phones and replaceable batteries concurrently but I don't think this is requiring batteries to literally be hot swappable. I think as long as you can remove the back and the battery with regular common tools, nothing proprietary, that would suffice.

It would be harder to do an IP68 rating with a hot swappable battery. Although having hot swappable battery is a huge advantage anyway. But I don't think that's the requirement here, just so normal people will be able to get the battery out with a screwdriver but not necessarily in 3 seconds so they can replace a battery while they're out and about

All of that said companies exaggerate the benefits of an IP rating. All of these phones are water resistant, not waterproof and even then water damage is almost never covered by the warranty. An IP ratings are only tested once under optimal conditions, in real life the IP rating isn't going to hold up after heavy use or one single submersion in water anyway.

So I tend to think the benefits of IP ratings are wildly overstated. Even phones without them hold up pretty well when submerged in water briefly like the Pixel 4a or the OnePlus 7 or the s20 FE.

Yeah but they largely get it because the name Facebook became so toxic and poisoned and it's probably better just to force them to have to stay in the cultural millieu as Facebook, the company that runs psychological experiments on its users and creates profiles illegally on non-users as well. That pays to be installed on Android devices and not be allowed to be uninstalled.

Yeah just stop using the s*** altogether. There are some s***** corporations I have to Play ball with. I have contracts with work for instance for people that insist on me using proprietary Microsoft software when I edit/file written work. But I refuse to use Facebook / meta. I suppose the only way I would ever use it is if I had a job that absolutely required it for some reason and that I could not live without.

Yeah but the point is you shouldn't have to shop for the right insurance plan, everyone should get their basic healthcare needs met. The idea that people have to shop around for a health care plan... When every other OECD nation has some kind of nationally-run public insurance plan without this hodgepodge networks. There's a reason why the US spends 33% of its healthcare spending on paperwork and yet the UK spends less than 1% on paperwork. Even Medicare which is much more simplified and universal for people over 65 has less than 2% of administrative.

The fact that there exist networks at all is really stupid. There's a reason why no other country in the industrial world does it like the US and there is a reason why the US spends the most for some of the worst outcomes.

Yeah I think the argument is why doesn't the government fix it. I mean we're spending 20% of our GDP on health care when you're every industrial world spends between 8 and 12.. business owners are burdened by the issue of having employment attached to health care. So there are reasons, practical ones and financial ones why the government or the business community might want to change it.

But of course the same government is getting oodles of money from these private HMOs, hospitals, pharma.... I mean Biden in particular was funded strongly by the partnership for American healthcare future which was a coalition of health care interest that basically existed just stop the Bernie Sanders campaign.

And while there are legitimate business reasons why a business owner might want to be unburdened with health care, the existence of the attachment of health care to employment gives them tremendous leverage over their workers.

But there are some reason. I mean there are capitalists and greedy politicians and business owners in every other OECD nation and they still aren't as twisted as the US.

Yeah you're only option in that situation is probably to show up at an emergency room. There is still a law that says they have to treat you although not necessarily comprehensively. But they will at least give you an appointment with the doctor you'll have to wait a long time and you will get a bill for it.

Your follow-up care is not necessarily guaranteed but you will get something.

It's just so twisted and disgusting.

This country is f****** crazy. I remember like 8 years ago I was trying to get into rehab to kick opiates which I eventually did in 2015. When I got into a free bed for a detox, they wouldn't let me in because it said my insurance wasn't accepted. The irony was I didn't have insurance anymore, they still had me listed as being insured with some s***** Blue Cross program at my old job.

I actually had to get proof that I wasn't insured so the state would cover my bed.

Any other OECD Nation pretty much and you get treated like anyone else. And the sick part is both political parties are okay with this, and militantly fight any serious ever for a public health care system with one single risk pool where everybody is automatically opted in.