n2burns

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[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

In case anyone else wants to see it, I've even queued up the link https://youtu.be/8CTX8W4UZUA?si=uv_bvwoHD40B0YDJ&t=846

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd say at least half if those would get them sued for Trademark infringement. Once again, this is AI plagairising, but this time it's with obviously trademarked names.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 month ago (2 children)

As others have pointed out, even that won't stop them. These posts are over a decade old!

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I was just trying to refute your assertion that, "Trade ins and selling old phones doesn’t really reduce e-waste." Obviously some used phones are going to be bought by people who need a replacement, and if a used phone wasn't an option, they'd buy new.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't know why you are soo hostile. Are you okay?

Your new scenario is still supply constrained. No one gets a new phone for 2 out of 3 years.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those aren't unpurchased new phones though. As you point out, they're discontinued, discounted and sold.

I was only trying to refute that, "Trade ins and selling old phones doesn’t really reduce e-waste." I'm the same as you, buying used phones, and if I didn't have that option I would be buying new phones instead.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago

I completely agree with your comment. I was only responding to the claim, "Trade ins and selling old phones doesn’t really reduce e-waste."

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 80 points 2 months ago (19 children)

I too wish the developer would respond, but I don't think this is the catastrophe people are making it out to be. One comment seems to explain why these binaries are included:

Because ventoy supports shim, and by extension secure boot, these files needs to come from a signed Linux distro. In this case they are taken from Fedora releases, and OpenSUSE apparently, as they publish shim binaries and grub binaries signed by their certificate.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Why would you make your scenario supply constrained? Your argument is simply if we sold less phones, less would go to e-waste, and duh. That wasn't debate, it was whether releasing new phones every year was wasteful vs new phones being released every 2-3 years.

Your scenario also assuming people buy used or they just don't have a phone. People who buy a used phone generally do so instead of buying a new phone.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Almost certainly not, but I'm just trying to point out it's not a hardware limitation. Though, if it was installed remotely, they would probably have issues printing locally.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 months ago (13 children)

That's empirically untrue. If people are selling their used phones and not keeping more than one phone (which definitely happens, but is unrelated to this point), then the exact same number of phones would be produced as if everyone bought new and only put them in e-waste when they were broken/obsolete.

[–] n2burns@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

You're not completely wrong, as they also have thin clients which should be technically capable of running a word processor. It's just a question of whether the prison is going to implement that no/low-cost solution.

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