Making Batteries Removable and Replaceable: a closer look at the new EU Guidelines - Right to Repair Europe The EU published new guidelines for removability and replaceability requirements under the Batteries Regulation. Some progress was made, but a huge opportunity was missed for smartphone and tablet bat...

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and then I found this....

Author @gilduran.com was just banned from “free speech absolutist” twitter for criticizing the Palantir CEO’s manifesto— so here’s his upcoming book: www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Make everything repairable. Fuck, if apple brings back replaceable batteries, I might just buy an iphone...

It is meow!

I tell myself the gods nerfed me for a reason because of how much more of a gremlin id be xD

it’s a great day for transphobes to eat shit

Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight Darren Blanchard went a few seconds over his three minute time limit and found himself in handcuffs.

“True story. I was at a public meeting a few weeks ago and went slightly over my speaking time and got thrown in the slammer there in China, I mean Rogers county." www.404media.co/farmer-arres...

One Achievement I like is when you start the game. It can then give devs a percent of who owns the game and who has played the game.

Otherwise, achievements should be silly challenges that make you go "Wait, you can do that?"

The USDA’s gardening zones shifted. This map shows you what’s changed in vivid detail There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden.

There's a good chance your zone shifted when the USDA updated its plant hardiness map in 2023. Zoom in on what that means for your garden. From the NPR archives.

Omg That's wonderful!

There was a video I saw years ago that I kinda got inspired by. A guy grew a pothos on each side of his house, and over the years just started pinning it on the walls. After like 5 years they both touched in the middle of the house!

I hope to one day have an actual house and just slowly pin it up on the walls and stuff to give it its best life.

It is! The thing just keeps going. This is just its main stem. It has another thats almost just as long, and then two more that are about half....

Been thinking about this for a while. We should bring back E3, but journalists only, like it use to be. Allow for games media to grow again!

3D map of the Chongqing Metro that shows the elevation and decline of each line, with some essentially looking like roller coasters

(Chongqing is the Chinese city that went viral for showing how you could be on the ground floor but then walk a bit and be on the 22nd floor, due to the hilly terrain)

Bluesky after an update

Recently moved and I got to put my plants back up. I got this guy in 2022 and it was like 4 leaves!

Hot damn, I just realized there is NO music in the show...wow...

Had an idea for a new evolution for Porygon that reflects the modern era of technology. I predict this will be replacing most other pokemon in competitive use by the end of the decade.

Solid comparison. No notes.

SCREAMING

This bill is an important first step towards cracking down on predatory pricing schemes, but fully regulating dynamic and surveillance pricing means going further.

Maryland and every other state still have work to do to regulate promotional offers, loyalty programs, and temporary discounts.

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I hear from my friends on how much daycare is in the states, and that alone makes any small chance of me wanting kids go away....

American CEOs when you tell them Capitalism is about free markets and open competition.

Google, Microsoft, Meta All Tracking You Even When You Opt Out, According to an Independent Audit “This is the Strait of Hormuz in the data economy. If you want to make a change, this is where you cut it off. Anything short of that is theatrical political posture.”

“In my view this stuff isn’t complicated. You say, ‘don’t set the cookie.’ They set the cookie. The regulators see a fox going into the henhouse and the fox says, ‘I’m just here to count the eggs, not to eat any chickens.’ And they take them at their word."

Trump admin ordered to permanently restore Stonewall pride flag The LGBTQ+ pride flag will be permanently returned to Stonewall after the Trump administration settled a recent lawsuit with several nonprofits.

A win! Pride flag returning to Stonewall National Monument.