It had been in the works for a while, but now it has formally been adopted. From the article:
The regulation provides that by 2027 portable batteries incorporated into appliances should be removable and replaceable by the end-user, leaving sufficient time for operators to adapt the design of their products to this requirement.
Article 38:
https://data.consilium.europa.eu/doc/document/PE-2-2023-INIT/en/pdf
Does that mean manufacturers will be able to get away with shit like this?
Did they ship it free of charge? If so, I guess yes then
Also, some very specialized tools are commercially available. In fact, i’m not sure what kind of tool is so special that you can’t buy it at all, outside of science and advanced measurements and such.
Basically every tool for repairing an iPhone (especially to fix the part serialization)
Removed by mod
Samsung provide me thermal energy pls