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  • 'Overworked and unhappy' Apple Southampton store staff want to unionize

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    laytech said:
    The luxury employees have these days is choice. Choice to work where you want work and for who, or you have the choice to find another job. There is no law stopping you from leaving. You may love your work and the job but feel under valued or underpaid or both, and that is a true shame but you may find that balance elsewhere.

    What I have learned as an employer, is that pay rises are quickly spent and the satisfaction is short lived. The dissatisfaction quickly returns and those passing around the toxicity soon start to bring it back again. A job is more than just pay but pay of course is important but it is not the overriding factor. 

    Unionising will solve nothing. Business have had to compromise in the past 24 months to levels never seen before. I often seem to forget who is working for who, the employee or the employer. 
    Surely the intent is to be working together to achieve a shared goal?
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple prepares for the end of leather Apple Watch bands with staff discounts

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    applebynature said:
    Good, stop using skins from murdered animals.
    Don't be ridiculous. These animals are killed for their meat; making use of what would otherwise be a waste product (the skin) is maximising the utility from the creature's death - anything less is disrespectful.
    diman809secondkox2watto_cobra

  • New low-cost MacBook rumored to take on Chromebooks in education

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    Time for a conspiracy theory: what if this DigiTimes report is all about trying to scare the makers of ChromeBooks into making even cheaper devices?

    I don't see Apple taking this approach. If you want a cheap, dependable computer (albeit without a built-in screen and pointing device) then maybe try the Pi400: https://www.raspberrypi.com/products/raspberry-pi-400/
    williamlondonwatto_cobraAppleZulu

  • Apple will frame iPhone 15 USB-C switch as a consumer win

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    eightzero said:
    I delayed an upgrade to iphone 14 when it became clear some time ago usbc was coming to the 15. My ipad is usbc, my mba is usbc, my mac mini and hp monitor is usbc. Whats not to like?

    i did note that a car rental in europe inclded a model with a usbc port only. No usba, so keep those adapters. And any cable, any electronic hardware for that matter are all destined to be ewaste. I have many 110v cords cables plugs that have been in use for decades, but at some point they do become not only unusable, but dangerous. See eg tube and post wiring and worse in houses. What is needed is ecomically vable efficint recycling methods. I also have a drawer of adb cords and dongles.

    i rented a car this holiday weekend , and was exposed to wireless carplay. Rather than an iphone 15, maybe i should get that dongle, since carplay is really what i want a wired connection for. But...alas, my iphone Xr is having the usual and expected battery degrade. And replacing just that is $59 but yeesh...rhink of the ewaste it causes...
    Batteries are incredibly easy to recycle and it's a very efficient process for the most part. The biggest problem is actually getting the batteries to the recycling centres: EU Report AU CSIRO
    tht said:
    designr said:
    Out of (genuine) curiosity, does anyone have a source (link) that estimates how much, let's say in total cubic footage, waste there would be if, for example, every single Lightning cable in the world was thrown away?

    This is a serious question. There are many claims of waste. I'm curious if there are any estimates of how many cubic feet of waste it might be.
    No source, but you can do the math. A Lightning cable is a 1 meter long cord with about 0.003 meter diameter. That’s 7E-6 m3. Over a year, Apple sells about 200m iPhones for about 1413 m3, or a cube that is 11.2 m per side. Or a cube 40 ft per side. 

    The claims of reducing e-waste for standardization on USBC obviously didn’t make sense. There is much much bigger waste to deal with.

    The best reason to standardize on USBC is to make using rechargeable battery powered devices easy to charge. Over time, you can get a charge anywhere as everyone will use USBC. 

    Saving e-waste? Nope. All the standardization is doing replacing Lightning cable “e-waste” with USBC cable e-waste. Only way e-waste is saved is if OEMs stop putting cables in the box. When that happens, yes, e-waste will be saved. Not much, but it will be saved. Whether that happens is an interesting question. 

    The best way to save on e-waste is to force OEMs to take back their devices and have them recycled, be audited, otherwise they can’t sell the device. 

    Some more waste statistics for the EU. Interesting reading; the headline is that on average across the EU, Construction & Demolition causes the most waste at 37.5%, then Mining & Quarrying at 23.4%, followed by Waste/Water at 10.8%, Manufacturing at 10.6% and Households at 9.4%. Oh, and Finland generates ~21 tonnes of waste per year per capita and it mostly goes to landfill (how they achieve that I don't know, given the size of the country - maybe they fire it across the border into Russia).
    dewmewatto_cobra

  • Apple arguing iMessage isn't big enough to be EU gatekeeper service

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    If nothing else, future historians will have a fascinating study of the effect these regulations have on the global economy and the EU's performance relative to other states. Perhaps a useful comparison will be to the personal happiness of the citizenry.
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