I agree with you that the repair service can be expensive to offer, but the replacement part should still cost next to nothing. I can’t imagine a phone battery costing any more than $10 to manufacture.

What I’m concerned about is that this law is pretty useless without cheaper prices for original batteries to go with it.

I’d imagine you’d have a hard time using USB power banks to form a battery that resembles (for example) a MacBook Air battery:

Considering most power banks use 18650 cells or similar (but even if they are thinner), I can’t really see how you’d form a battery pack that fills the space effectively on most notebooks anyway.

It’s also a lot of work finding the correct cells to use (form and size wise), ordering them, if it’s in a power bank prying that apart, desoldering the old and soldering in the new cells. >= 99% of all people would purchase complete, fitting battery packs for their model of laptop.

While that’s great, what I’m more concerned about is pricing for original replacement batteries. I don’t really care if I have to send my phone in for 2 to 3 days (which is what it took last time I sent an iPhone 11 Pro to Apple), what concerns me more is pricing. Especially with older phones, having to pay $69 to $89 for battery repair (plus shipping) is quite a lot. Self-service parts cost the exact same price from Apple currently.

The EU should forbid charging more for replacement or repair parts than the cost to manufacture them plus a small (!) markup.

Also, please extend this law to include all kinds of electronics (smartwatches, laptops, tablets etc.).

Especially AirPods and other true wireless earbuds should have replaceable batteries, as they are basically dead after 3 to 5 years, which just feels wrong considering everything except the batteries probably lasts a lot longer and when you get an expensive “battery repair” they just give you new AirPods.

This version is constantly freezing up for me. I click two buttons only for it to freeze for 10 seconds.

So what’s faster? A Core 7 or a Core Ultra 5?

While it would fit, that’s not the one!

It’s great to see more clients popping up. While the basic design of the feed and comment section are well thought out, I still prefer a native Swift UI application to a React Native application. I get why it’s using React Native, but still.

Great job though!

Penguin with Uzis slaughters Penguins

We had a lot of fun with V Rising. It’s a bit like Diablo I’d say, but with base building and crafting and the level is based entirely on gear, so if someone misses a few sessions you can just craft one extra set of the latest armor you unlocked and they are on your level instantly.

I like smaller smartphones (say, the iPhone 12/13 mini), but 3 inches is a bit too tiny for modern mobile apps if you ask me.

Same-screen, but: PlateUp!

It’s nice if you already have GFN, but I wouldn’t say it’s a killer feature, as you can already stream Game Pass games with xCloud at no additional cost anyways, right?

In case of Diablo IV in my opinion Blizzard has a good track record of keeping game servers online for years and years.

That being said, the game does have some weird server hopping mechanic that you can’t turn off, meaning it seems to switch servers while you’re playing, which isn’t always as seamless as you’d hope it would be. Also, at least for me, it sometimes selects servers with >100ms latency, which is quite noticeable of course.

The mission where the janitor gives you his Walkman in Control, where you’re in that weird room killing heaps of enemies. Couldn’t stop smiling and appreciating the scene with the great music.

Some people reported that the GuliKit sticks have an “outer deadzone” of sorts, where the stick already registers that it’s pushed 100% to the outside at around 70%. I’m wondering if this new version is still like that.

While I’m coping that Christian “ports” Apollo over to work with Lemmy, I love what you guys are doing with Mlem. I’m in the beta via TestFlight and what’s there works quite well (even though you can clearly tell it’s early days).

I’m very new to iOS development, but if I find the time and motivation I might put in the hours to contribute a feature or two.

At $0.24 per 1,000 API calls, this must be the most inefficient backend code to ever exist if that’s “fair pricing” as opposed to ridiculous pricing.

Pretty cool if you ask me. Sure, it uses a lot of existing software like WINE, but it seems to be working quite well overall. People have already gotten games like Diablo IV and Cyberpunk to work. Take a look here: https://www.applegamingwiki.com/wiki/Game_Porting_Toolkit.

I’m not gaming on my MacBook anyway (I have a PC as well), but I’ll probably try it just to see how well it works on my M1 Max 24-core GPU.