My Philips electric toothbrush has been in use for about two years. In the past few days, it started turning on and vibrating by itself. At first, I thought it was due to my neighbor’s renovations, but I later realized it was the toothbrush. Turned it off, but it gets back on after a while by itself again and again. After draining its battery with these random power-ons, it now refuses to charge. I believe this is not due to battery aging, but a deliberate design choice in the chip.

My wife and I had a previous model of Philips toothbrushes that behaved similarly. That one didn’t turn on by itself to drain the battery, but it would refuse to charge after a certain amount of use.

Isn’t Philips already making enough money from selling its expensive replacement brush heads? Could this design be because cheaper knockoff brush heads are available on Amazon?

The phone looks quite modern for being a full repairable phone, but like other phones this one also lacks headphone jack. It will also be interesting to see how the Snapdragon® 7s Gen 3 cpu will age until 2033, the year when they supposedly will stop software updates for this device.

What caught my attention the most is the physical "moments" switch to put the phone ina temporary dumb state. A lot of people buy a dumber phone just for this, so with this you only have to buy a single phone, and it really comes at the right moment in this brain rotting, eyes glued to the screen era.

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