Mastodawn

Thib Apr 19, 2024

Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.

Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.

We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-63245150

E-waste: Five billion phones to be thrown away in 2022

Billions of phones will be hoarded in drawers and cupboards or thrown away rather than recycled, studies suggest.

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Gerardo Lisboa

@thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome
@fsfe @dff

We should be celebrating tomorrow the

Hardware Freedom Day

https://digitalfreedoms.org/hfd

and discussing Device Neutrality

https://fsfe.org/activities/deviceneutrality/index

and the

Right to Repair

https://repair.eu/

#RightToRepair #DeviceNeutrality #HardwareFreedomDay #HFD

About Hardware Freedom Day - Digital Freedom Foundation

The Digital Freedom Foundation is the organization behind global events like Software Freedom Day, Hardware Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day