• Jarmer@slrpnk.net
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    1 year ago

    This is a very good thing. Thank you EU for forcing us dirty heathens in NA to have consumer protections.

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      1 year ago

      Isn’t the main issue whether or not there’s an ease to replace? There’s like 20 steps and a bunch of easily breakable cables involved with replacing it currently.

      I mean I think you can replace the Switch’s battery too by that standard.

      Same site even says it’s only 1 extra step in total, though instead of the cables being in the way, it sounds like the shields a bit more difficult.

      But like either of these replacements would require a technical user to do it.

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      1 year ago

      Steam deck done.

      Not really. Look up the Linus Tech Tips teardown. The battery is glued in super hard. Linus said he spoke to Valve about that and according to him Valve said they’re looking into making it easier to replace at a later date. Since then I’ve not seen any reports about a change.

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        1 year ago

        And requires heating + prying.

        If this is considered replaceable, I wonder what an non-replaceable battery would be. Soldered to the main board and trying to unsolder it causes a failsafe to short the CPU?

  • Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    I think there should be a requirement for easily expandable storage as well.

    Switch and Steam Deck seem to be OK for this, but I’d like to further piss on Apple’s chips.

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    1 year ago

    Excellent, I like that I can replace batteries easily from my old handhelds, the only issue for that case is finding trusted ones.