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.

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    1 year ago

    It does until it doesn’t. Joy to one morning discover I can’t pay for my bus ticket, while I’m already on the bus.

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been running rooted Android phones for more than 10 years now and have been using Google pay for about 4 of those years. Never had that happen. That seems very much like something you screwed up.

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        1 year ago

        You are free to think so, but it’s hard to screw up something that worked for months and without any configuration changes breaks itself

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been running rooted Android phones for more than 10 years now and have been using Google pay for about 4 of those years. Never had that happen. That seems very much like something you screwed up.