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> Only a tiny percentage of laptops are ever upgraded.

Probably yes and that is also probably because behaviors like this. Manufacturers have trained consumers for years that upgrading of fixing stuff is not worth it. Personally, I have upgraded every laptop I have ever owned. This isn't possible with todays Macbooks.

> Also Apple devices on average have much longer service lives than devices from most other manufacturers

Bullshit, if anything I believe the opposite is true. What is your source for this?

I love how Apple claim to care so much about the environment and then goes on to create basically the most unfixable pieces of hardware possible.

Great job, really awesome for the environment Apple.

Looks very cool!

Thank you, Germany.

I love the EU and it's countries more and more for every news article like this.

Firefox is unfortunately becoming unrelevant. They have pretty much less than 5% global usage and it's not exactly increasing.

Mozilla needs to sharpen up in my view. I use Brave because I like Brendan Eich and I am not exactly a fan of Mozilla as an org. There is no way to fund Firefox development as a user and it seems like they have focused more on side products / services lately.

If the title wouldn't include a description of what it is I would be very confused. There is nothing on the website that actually say what it is.

> I think the difference is that Google has a relatively large contingent of "activist" type employees

Yes, I believe also this is the case. This is also in my opinion the biggest issue with Google nowadays and what makes it extra garbage. They seem to be caught again and again to use their large size to surpress and censor people and companies.

Google has become such a garbage company to be honest. Is anything they do nowadays good and honest?

I think Google heavily needs to be split up.

rocket.chat perhaps. But it is still a webapp so the memory consumption will perhaps be similar.

Looks cool and all, but what are the benefits of using this over say normal js? I guess if you want to use other libraries, you still need to include them somehow in the build step or can opal take care of that as well?

The only issue I have with that is there may be other engines which are not electric but could still provide the same benefits.

We also can produce energy without fossile fuels and burning coal. I am not saying we should not stop putting out carbon into the atmosphere. I am saying that the idea that we shouldn't travel as much etc will never fly (pun intended).

That is why you never see politicians and "influencers" etc live as they preach. Because people need to use a car, people need to fly and take boats.

What we can do is produce energy in a better way and consume it in a better way. If that means banning cars and planes that burn fuel, so be it. I am not against that. What I am against is the idea that we should stop doing stuff because our environment requires it.

I am working remotely, so I use my car more seldom that I belive many people that commutes every day. Yet, swedish companies that claim to be so environmental friendly seems to be very hostile to remote work in general.

Stuff like that is what I am against. Don't tell people how to live and then do the reverse yourself. I agree we should act now but the environmental movement is really more anti-progress than pro environment at least in Sweden in my opinion.

Why though? Let's imagine we could create an electric plane for example and produce the electricity it uses completely carbon free.

Why would that be an issue? I think this is totally doable, if we desire.

Sure, but it was just an example to illustrate my point. They hanven't been the good at all in recycling their products until pretty recently.

They still try and keep people from actually repairing their devices which are perfectly fine in many cases. So I believe it's still a valid point even if there could be better examples.

And honestly, you write

> updated for a long, long time

Are they really tho? A few years is not a long, long time in my opinion and even if you don't buy a new one for a couple of years and it's still updated they usually make it unbearable slow so that you cannot live with it anymore and purchase a new one. It is easy to update, but nearly impossible to go back to an older version if the new version turns out to be very slow.

My father still uses a dumphone and a windows phone. They both work surprisingly well for him, especially the windows phone. I am actually pretty amazed on the longevity of the Nokia Lumia.

Making a phone last 2-4 years is not a long time. I believe many people could easily have the same phones for 10+ years if the phone makers were interested of making that happen. They aren't though and that is a bit of an issue.

Just compare a phone to most other products and you will soon notice people update their smart phone a lot more often than most other things. Sure it's an important device but not that many people would actually need the feature upgrade every version have.

Make a phone that lasts 20 years or more and I will start to believe that you are making good, long lasting products.

I am a swede and I am totally confused on why people in my country seems to totally have lost their minds. People only feel guilty about some things.

These are the same people that buy products from "hip" companies like Apple which are famous for making products harder to repair and practically forces people to buy completely new devices even if something is wrong on the current one and that it easily could be repaired. Yet I have never heard about any shame owning an Apple product, most likely it's the reversed.

My point is that people are irrational and only acts on stuff that either feel, sound or looks good. Like always when a headline starts with a question, the answer is probably going to be a resounding "no".

It isn't the act of flying that makes it bad. For example, a swedish company fly with partly renewable fuel (https://www.flygbra.se/hallbarhet/boka-miljo-class/faq/) and I believe any issue can be solved with technology advancement.

We shouldn't limit ourselves because of climate change. We should instead improve the technology and make it better so it doesn't impact the climate in such a way it becomes unsustainable.

This is the core issue I have with the crazy people in my country. They complain but offer zero alternatives except "not doing that". Just compare Greta Thunberg (which is a person with zero suggestions) to Boyan Slat that actually tried to develop technology to clean up the oceans.

Greta is way more famous and have way more attention even if Boyan is far, far more admirable and actually tries to provide solutions for the future.

Perhaps not. Maybe the contacts you will recieve and the amount of money is enough to help you bootstrap stuff faster.

I have never actually started a company myself, so I wouldn't know. I just think I would be extremely satisfied if I could sustain myself without any investor money.

Seems like a better way to grow in my mind, if you're not aiming to be a billion dollar company anytime soon.

The problem isn't really the site or the admins, it's mainly the community and moderators.

They almost instantly lock new questions if they're not very specific, they are hostile and they're elitist. If you haven't researched your qustion for hours before, be prepared to get a lot of downvotes for your ignorance.

I used to post somewhat regularly on SO, I never post anything anymore since there is no idea because the community and moderators are too unfriendly.

The site itself is very nice though and many answers are still very good.

I have seen people say this on HN over and over again. But it's not like most people who start businesses lacks vision. If you got a vision and start to earn enough money to sustain yourself you are free to hunt whatever vision you want.

> constant input and a nagging push to improve what you're doing

I get why this can be good, but honestly it sounds terrible when you lay it out like that. If I want to be nagged on, I would just get married.

Rarely. I get some texts from the GF most of the time. Amazon doesn't really exist in my country anyway.

Ok, I get the desire, but personally I believe it's a bit fluffy.

I'd love to be in your guys position and I have a hard time just understanding why you would want to give away control which is basically freedom, be essentially be cool or be part of an "elite" group?

You guys already are cool, you don't need someone else to be it.

I don't understand. If they make money from the app, why not simply just keep working instead of letting go of a portion of the company?

Sure, it is a lot of money they will get but it seems like they don't really need it?

I work remotely for about 80% of the workweek. I am most effective at home. At work people talk to me and interrupt me quite often. You get interrupted by people walking by etc or just striking up a conversation.

At home this obviously never happens for me. The only distraction I have is Slack and my dog that reminds me that it's time for a walk.

So I can attest to this.

I love his book "Why we sleep" and I think most people today should read it.

People take pride in sleeping less than they should which is pretty fucked up in my opinion.

DHH also have a lot to say about it:

https://m.signalvnoise.com/sleep-deprivation-is-not-a-badge-...

https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/microsoft-reboots-war-on-s...

Page not found? Is it just me or is this for everyone?

Well then I won't see it because I don't use twitter.

Seems like a good way to miss out on potential talent.

Your condescending tone is not very nice. DJI is great but they make small drones flying on battery, this is a bit different with the missions being completely different.

Seems cool but I don't think I would ever even think about using Twitter to search for jobs?

No I am referring to Cybaero.

No, it got bankrupt. Now I've read that the Chinese company have an almost exact replica of their product.

I am not really certain about all the details, but it looked like a good deal at first but it turned out that they probably just wanted to copy their stuff.