ThibApr 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.

Show threadWolf480plApr 19, 2024
@thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome we need to stop the perpetually increasing resource consumption of apps and websites. 10 years ago 4GB of RAM was enough for a computer, now that amount is insufficient even for a phone.
Show threadLightning Bjornsson*  Apr 19, 2024

@wolf480pl @thibaultamartin @postmarketOS @gnome and mastodon, pleroma etc are contributing to this, by motivating web browser devs to keep doing what they’re doing

(dishonourable mention to GNOME)

Show threadWolf480plApr 19, 2024
@lightning I suspect browsers are actually getting faster, it's just that websites get slower at a higher rate than browsers get faster
Show threadLightning Bjornsson*  Apr 19, 2024
@wolf480pl modern browsers seem to consume more memory at rest
Show threadWolf480plApr 19, 2024
@lightning by at rest you mean only one tab ope.and.that tab is about:blank? If so, maybe they do, and I see how it could be a problem for usecases where you don't keep 50 tabs open at all times.
Show threadLightning Bjornsson*  
@wolf480pl that is what I mean by at rest
Apr 19, 2024 at 12:33pmWeb