I think we need to migrate to virtual paperclips and beat them a!i

It could be the elephant in the room but there is this music called "World's smallest violin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Yeap, this route of more "advanced" device with user interface and complex OS is the way to faster obsolescence. They should keep the old chromecast line with simple and hidden OS that doesn't require updates every time some one decide to increase the Android version number...

EU cities have had decades of pollution with more diesel than gas cars and, in many cases it's easily spotted what an old diesel engine (without the particulate filter) does to air behind, so how could they allow this to continue to happen for so long?

Mainly the most expensive ones that is against the logic, because the more you pay for a device the more you expect it to last, and batteries are the certain component that wont last as much as all other components. So they should be hold responsible for shortening life expectancy of all smartphones (not just theirs) and negatively influence on accelerated ambiental degradation on smartphone industry business strategy, putting profits ahead of user/human benefits.

It also depends on pixel count.. the bigger the pixel the uglier are the round shapes.

Like some phone carriers do locking the phone to their network, and if you want to use it somewhere else you have to pay to unlock it :P

Wireless charging on a car for a long trip with carplay can keep phone hot if using the screen in direct sun light and max brightness, even worse. Recording 4K movies on the beach in a sunny day. (max screen brightness, high CPU usage, possibly alternating with a power bank charging). Those are just 2 examples of intensive usage that can kill battery faster than "normal" usage, so either you don't take advantage of phone's powerful hardware because it can shorten battery life, or replace the battery after 1 year of "intensive" usage and get back the hardware you payed for. Problem is all other brands followed the internal battery Apple extortion tactics and in some cases, for example some imported phones, can be hard to replace the battery on a certified service, or too expensive, or requires shipping phone somewhere for a few days with your personal data (or erase all data to be safe and wait...) Having in mind all phones had removable batteries in the past, this should be the starting point.

A washing machine is not a low power machine, it's CPU might be low power but if it's doing something always at 100% usage nobody will notice because the other parts of the machine will use 100x more power. If it had some GPU's it could heat some water while mining, but that shouldn't be the case ;)

They should have investigated deeply who was behind the SCO VS IBM/Linux at that time because all of them should be on the same side and suddenly they started trying to kill each other...

I agree with the test, if it's problematic maybe we can try using a sub-woofer with ultra low frequencies to pump air and maybe give additional base to the sound system :P

But live telemetry communication went dead at some point and it exploded later on, so I believe they didn't send the destruction command from the ground and had it programmed to explode in case of loosing communication, witch raises the question of why did they loose communication and what really happened after loosing communication and auto destruction... about added weight, the starship is the most powerful rocket of all times and in these initial test flights is not carrying any valuable satellites or cargo it sure has free cargo space for a black box covered in a heat shield, inflatable floating device and para shoots.

If they lost communication with the ship and it exploded after that, I suppose it was programmed to explode in case it lost communication, and there could be valuable data lost in between, so I suppose it would be valuable to have a kind of a black box attached to a para-shoot and a tracker with logs of what could have happened in order to fix it for next time.

Because there are no rules in place to protect consumers against companies profit and greed. A Smartphone is a very complex group of technologies condensed on a pocket device that can handle many of the same functions of other specific devices could do, so it is always a compromise between what you prioritise when choosing a smartphone. Unfortunately you can't pick specific specs from each model and create your own smartphone so most people go with the trend (most famous models) and ignore the drawbacks it might have. Apple started the trend to include built in batteries and other brands followed the same route, and it sure gave them more sales, but that's not to say it was a great feature for consumers. There are very few brands that make smartphones with user replaceable batteries but again, most people will not choose a smartphone just for this spec. That's why we need legislation - to protect consumers from not having the option to buy a device that (can reduce sales for the company) but improve life expectancy of the device.

Or does mini wireless chargers also have the same problem?