• Uncommented-Code@alien.topB
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    11 months ago

    If I wanted I could stop typing right now, turn my phone around and have that usb C port replaced within 5 minutes.

    Have done it before on my boyfriend’s fairphone 4 and no doubt your average user could do it within half a hour.

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      11 months ago

      That’s also the case for any phone.

      if you take care of your phone then it will be electronic waste because cell towers don’t support it anymore before it actually breaks.

      Your phone will literally turn to rust before your charging port should break from use. A glass screen should never scratch unless you carry lose diamonds in your pocket.

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        11 months ago

        What the fuck are you on about?

        Your comment makes literally no sense in any way. A port can break really easily and why is a phone rusting a benchmark for you? Why did you bring up the screen? Do you know anything about phones?

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          11 months ago

          Humidity, heat changes, and oxidizstion is literally the only thing that should kill a phone nowadays, usb c last for 50 years of normal charging, screens are practically indestructible.

          There is no reason your phone should break before cell towers stop supporting it.

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        11 months ago

        That’s also the case for any phone.

        it just isnt.

        Good luck getting the back off most modern phones without a heatgun and replacement adhesive

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          11 months ago

          Would this phone be a good introduction to hardware assembly for kids? Kinda like legos?

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            11 months ago

            If you want hardware assembly get a few old notebooks that would be thrown away either way. Kids tend to break stuff when learning and I don’t think you’d want them to do that to an actual phone that is intended for further use.

            A Laptop is also much larger than the phones and there are more components to learn about and play around with.

            My two cents.

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              11 months ago

              Good plan. I actually got them one of those really cheap pinebooks a couple of years back but their mom said they needed a windows laptop so I got to keep it. Might give it now anyway.