CalcProgrammer1

If it’s used for something that benefits society sure, but AI slop farms don’t do that. Also, if it’s reasonable sized and not determined to buy up way more resources than needed to destroy the consumer electronics economy.

Sodium batteries have considerably less energy density than lithium, at least at the moment. They’re best for stationary use such as solar and grid backup, not for portable devices. Not really even a good fit for EVs yet.

The myriad of reasonably priced unofficial batteries on eBay and AliExpress.

Yeah, this feels like extreme price gouging. I generally like what iFixit does, their toolkits are great and I’ve bought Steam Deck parts in the past (a replacement fan when mine got noisy). However, if they’re going to participate in price gouging I’m done with them. There’s no reason a Steam Deck sized battery should ever be even close to $180, and given how numerous third party options are, there’s zero reason to pay that price for an “official” one. It’s a battery, it’s as generic of a component as it gets. Sure, it has a charge controller, but so do the third party ones. It’s a custom shape, but that’s probably just two standard sized cells taped together. If the shape were a real problem the third party ones wouldn’t be any cheaper.

You can run postmarketOS on Fairphone 5 and 6 AFAIK.

At that point just get an unofficial replacement, they’re $40-50 on eBay right now. The iFixit partnership is nice, but if they’re just going to inflate prices then they’re not doing anyone the service they think they’re doing. I’ve generally liked iFixit and I like their toolkits, but if they aren’t going to be competitive with pricing then don’t buy from them.

IE was the first unusable browser

I fail to see where the comment you replied to had any concern whatsoever for the business environment.