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> made replaceable batteries an impossibility

I was pretty excited to see that the new Fairphone actually has a user replaceable battery

All previous ones had that too. Additionally, it has a user-replacable screen, camera, and audio module, off the top of my head.

Of course, that's also the point of the product.

Yes, thanks for adding that important fact!

What will it take to get replaceable batteries on mainstream phones designed for US cell networks?

What i know is that today's Corporate/Firm production sends many young kids in Ghana to a cancer-driven death [1], or has them digging in death-trap cobalt mines in Congo [2] - and that it can at times make me feel hopeless, angry and frustrated.

Some of the most hopeful strategies i've come across is Sensorica's Open Value Network style Commons-based peer production (as well as projects like Precious Plastic, Open Source Ecology and WikiHouse, etc.), coupled with using a Holochain-pattern Resource Event Agent accounting method, currently being developed by http://valueflo.ws / Holo-REA (from the people at http://mikorizal.org/)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mleQVO1Vd1I

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv-hE4Yx0LU

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