I use one handed mode on my phone all the time because the damn thing is so fucking big. I can't even reach the toolbar with my baby hands. I had no choice but to buy this one cause it was the only one with decent battery in my price range. If I didn't have a purse it'd be impossible to carry it's like a brick in my pocket. It strains my wrist a little from it's sheer weight. Wtf is going on

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[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 23 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

phones need to be modular and open again, like computers used to be.

that way we have more choice on how we use it, and how much money we spend on it.

[–] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

https://www.onearmy.earth/project/phonebloks

Never forget what google took from us

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

it was silly that you could just pull it apart by hand, but a concept like this with a screw on cover or something would be rad.

in a fairer society we could probably form a consortium and standardize a modular phone just like the nerds did back then with pcs. it has almost all of the advantages.

[–] The_Grinch@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

At least half of raspberry pi projects would be more easily accomplished by one of the phones kicking around in your junk drawer. If the bootloaders and hardware were fully open, making a linux distro run on them would be trivial. This would save thousands of phones from the landfill by repurposeing them as alarm clocks, thermostats, webcams, smarthome ___, and so on. They even come with a built in touchscreen and battery, which ras-pis don't!

The only cost to the company is open sourcing some software and internal documentation at end of life. My fingers are crossed the EU might do this but I doubt they will.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 4 days ago

imagine what we could do with more open hardware.