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Great film that. :T
People getting angry over some abysmal tabloid nonsense, only to find on closer inspection that it's actually a really good idea from the EU. So then they start parroting some other ranty nonsense they've read in their gutter rags.
For all the intellectuallising about why brexit happened, it's all here in this thread.
On mine you could switch it off I used to call it 'Assassin Mode'
My beef with the EU is they only do half the job, sure cut down on excess chargers but also put into place standardisation for all USB powered/charged devices.
As mentioned by others, USB C is the best current standard and finally.... it doesn't matter which way you plug things in!
(I know Apple already did this).
Why does that matter? I have seen countless devices over the years bought to me to see if I could fix them that had one simple fault, the charging socket had been damaged or detached from the circuit board, people (we all do it) trying to shove the cable in before realising it needed to go the other way round.
Literally hundreds of millions of devices must have seen an early death from this (tablets. phones, torches, cameras, you name it).
A switch to a bi-orientation (stop it!) standard would save enough waste to make the unneeded charger pile look insignificant.
I hope you are very happy and have a nice life xx
I wonder how much it cost to come up with this?
It's not that it's a bad idea, although I reckon that what it means in practice is that you'll still pay the same for your phone, but you won't get a charger included.
"That'll be £x.99 extra sir / madam" ta!
If you want one.
And it does nothing to address the things already mentioned, built in obsolescence in the form of batteries that can be fiendishly difficult to change, and the well know "autobreako" sub-tiny USB socket found on lots of things. I've changed more than one myself.
And in the greater scheme of things, it will make little real difference. It's politicians saying "Look what we done to save you from yourself! Ain't we clever! (PS don't forget that you paid us to do it, and will suffer the unforeseen consequences.) "
Finally, we already have our own happy band of worthies, sat on expensive green leather seats, to decide these things. One objection to the EU as a political animal was that it was just another layer of bureaucratic government added to the existing.
Because that would be far too sensible;)