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One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

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Re: One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

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Post by bombcar »

bstar77 wrote: post #222
COGlory wrote: post #160

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It's funny to see this analysis, because in my mind Rossman is simply being a New Yorker and doing things exactly as I'd expect a New Yorker to do them. The mentality that city forces on people to survive produces a narrow personality outcome and Rossman's personality is one of those.

I don't think being a New Yorker means you are destined to be as asshole. I'm from Jersey and generally don't care for people that meet the NY/NJ stereotypes. Maybe that's why guys like Rossman don't impress me.

There’s a line between being frank/brash and being an asshole - and often what side of the line someone falls on depends on how well you know/trust that the person has your best interests at heart.

Re: One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

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Post by judge2020 »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #184
webmobdev wrote: post #135

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It's an assumption based on the assumption that designers would put time and effort into making a simple replacement operation somewhat more difficult. And it's a very genuine and valid assumption supported by an industry practice called Planned obsolescence - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescence

However, if you take a look, Apple does perhaps the least planned obsolescence of any tech company, period. iOS updates are now going, like, 6+ years back on phones while Android flagships were lucky to get 2 years or any at all, for example.

For reference:

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/features/#:~:text=iOS%C2%A0...

The iPhone 6s was released September 25, 2015. This is mainly still supported because it's a very popular phone in India and other low-income countries, but it's there.

Re: One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

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Post by ghaff »

cat199 wrote: post #37
judge2020 wrote: post #29

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I think a factor is overestimating just how many people 'get into' YouTube culture. Only roughly 74% of American Adults use YouTube[0], and the average daily watch time is only 42 minutes[1], not much time to explore and watch videos outside of your own interests. Vsauce's videos are great (including the recent ones), but they're mostly a remnant of YouTube culture past, and 10-20 million views a video[2] is not a lo…

Exactly.. i watch youtube for "whatever i'm searching for", which has never been a science video. Cars, computers, music, other random interests sure, but not science.

Generally, I'm the same and I'm also probably only on YouTube a few days a week and often just to watch one or two short things, e.g. to see if there's a review of something that would benefit from watching a video.

Re: One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

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Post by gjsman-1000 »

simion314 wrote: post #267
gjsman-1000 wrote: post #187

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"or other true facts about Apple)" Except everything you just listed is mostly _not_ true or unique to Apple. The apps that you launch? That was the developer certificate, not the app, over the same protocol for verifying certificates that is used in Windows SmartScreen and other systems. The malware issue? Every statistic shows iOS has less malware than Android, so why exactly is that a complaint? CPU down clocking?…

Sure dude, it was not the app name sent in plain text but the app certificate, what is the difference ? Either Apple does not care about your privacy or they really care but are incompetent, chose one or other or both OR impress me with some mental gymnastics that makes Apple look good. >(malware...)so why exactly is that a complaint? Because some good people at Apple prepared emails to sent tot he victims but Tim de…

"Sure dude, it was not the app name sent in plain text but the app certificate, what is the difference?"

Every OS on the planet will verify developer certificates to ensure that the app you are using is genuine. Windows uses SmartScreen, for example. Like I said, it's the same protocol (OCSP - Online Certificate Status Protocol) Windows and other apps use for certificate verification, so Apple is hardly doing anything wrong or being incompetent by not reinventing the wheel.

"Because some good people at Apple prepared emails to sent tot he victims but Tim decided that is bad for PR so fuck the victims. Aka people need to know that if Apple has to chose between PR or the customer PR is on top."

Understandable for three reasons: 1. It would cause major unwarranted panic that could cause additional attacks. I.e. A phishing scam saying "click here to be protected from the iPhone attack!" 2. The malware in question did not have any known function and didn't actually do anything or send anything to anyone. In other words, despite being prevalent, it was completely harmless. 3. The malware would be automatically removed from the device after a restart or software update, which most customers were likely enough to do naturally.

"You are the problem, Apple only does this after a class action lawsuit,"

Android quickly copied Apple and added warnings because Android never notified the user up to that lawsuit either. To the end user, even though Android didn't typically slow the device down, the Android phone would just crash and restart randomly when under too much CPU load.

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Post by clarkb286 »

BombNullIsland wrote: post #68
dijit wrote: post #40

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For the little it’s worth: cars are mostly computer now. I come from a family of mechanics, my grandfather lamented new cars and their electronics because it’s harder to repair, he doesn’t try to understand the reason why, just that it’s harder now because the manufacturers “did it to him” to prevent third party repairs. You can argue that the electronics are to prevent cheaper repairs, but there is another truth the…

Perhaps. But it was a deliberate design decision to place certain sensors and actuators that may need repair in inaccessible locations. Pumps, spark plugs and chains need to be removable without major disassembly of the engine. Shift solenoids are a nasty problem that I've run into. They don't need to be hidden inside the transmission. And the transmission doesn't require the entire engine to be dropped to remove it.…

> "Batteries in most german cars are also deliberately placed under major engine components"

Source? I used to own a 2000 Audi S4 (bought in 2005), and the battery was easy to access and didn't take much labor to to replace. I now own and drive a 2006 Mercedes-Benz C55 AMG that I bought in 2009. One of the very few issues that the car has had was a parasitic battery drain, which went unnoticed for a long time, until I started a new job in which I was able to work from home, and, therefore, I didn't drive the car very often during that time span of around 4 years. Before I eventually determined what the problem was (the passenger power seat control module continued to draw current when the car was turned off), I had to replace the battery ~7 times (which usually didn't cost me anything since the since the batteries were still under warranty when they finally went dead). The battery in my car is very easy to access (it's not located under any major engine components) and is also very easy to remove, requiring little more than a socket wrench and no more than 15 minutes of labor.

Re: One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks

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Post by vultour »

theshrike79 wrote: post #250
bstar77 wrote: post #24

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I find Rossman insufferable due to his hyperbolic approach to shaming Apple and having a bone to pick with just about everyone- he's the definition of a narcissist. I agree in principle to "right to repair", but Rossman's motives are purely financial and self promoting. I've watched over 100 hours of his content and realized that his audience is primarily made up of anti-apple PC Master Race fanatics that just want t…

I remember the time I noticed how insufferable he is (to me). He had a video where he was trashing a new MacBook. The largest reason why he liked his current Lenovo over the MacBook was the Lenovo's battery bump. He used the battery bump as a handle when editing videos standing up on the subway. Oof. The sleek MacBook didn't have a convenient handle in the back for him to do his stand-up video editing, thus it was a…

From the videos I’ve seen there are very few where he doesn’t come off as insufferable. My favourite one is when he starts trashing the Genius Bar for not being able to diagnose an issue with a specific component on the motherboard like he does, and instead they recommend replacing the whole board. I don’t think Dell/HP/Lenovo support is going to bother inspecting a mobo with a microscope and checking voltage levels either.

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Post by A_non_e-moose »

cgearhart wrote: post #231
xyst wrote: post #82

Apple's fight against right to repair while pushing materials to the public that state they are trying to reduce their carbon footprint is the absolute peak of hypocrisy. I understand the closed off design of their products is a result of the Steve Jobs era, but why can't the current leadership make a change? Why can't Apple make their products easily repairable while making them aesthetically pleasing? The typical "…

I used to work as a civil service engineer for the Navy in technology development for future weapons. The brass would often complain about how expensive fully-integrated solutions were. We investigated and found that the main cause was vendor lock-in to buy the all up rounds. We couldn’t compete for lowest cost on the power cards, or signal processing cards, rocket motors, etc., because the government didn’t have dat…

That might apply to very complex, high reliability systems like those in the military. But a battery is very basic and it's a consumable more than a modularize-able component like an engine or turbo. I think batteries are easily replaceable in most military equipment.

Consumables in the very least should be replaceable for consumer products, or the price for its replacement capped, otherwise we're throwing away electronics that hasn't reached even a third of its lifetime just because the battery's lifetime is over, it's like buying a new car everytime the tires are worn out. It's an incredible waste of resources.

Same thing for connectors like USB, audio jack, buttons and joysticks.

Most egregious is the chip signature-checking and exclusive buyer rights on same chip, that should be outlawed, heavily fined and easily reported and checked. It's like adding a chip with a serial number for each tire and if you install one not from your car manufacturer then your car refuses to move. It's just a scam.

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Post by Macha »

ehsankia wrote: post #191
helmholtz wrote: post #144

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Give us your best-of list then lad!

Steve Mould: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEIwxahdLz7bap-VDs9h35A Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy0tKL1T7wFoYcxCe0xjN6Q Verge Science: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtxJFU9DgUhfr2J2bveCHkQ Mathologer: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1_uAIS3r8Vu6JjXWvastJg Sebastian Lague: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmtyQOKKmrMVaKuRXz02jbQ Captain Disillusion: https://www.youtube.com/channel/U…

Even Legal Eagle has had a lot of political clickbait of late, especially with his shorts. He'll talk about the riots, or matt gaetz or whatever, but the format is too short to allow any analysis, and his longer videos have a lot of "reacts" type content. Leonard French/Lawful Masses is the other extreme though, where he tends to just go through entire legal documents and splice in the relevant background occasionally.

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Post by simion314 »

gjsman-1000 wrote: post #274
simion314 wrote: post #267

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Sure dude, it was not the app name sent in plain text but the app certificate, what is the difference ? Either Apple does not care about your privacy or they really care but are incompetent, chose one or other or both OR impress me with some mental gymnastics that makes Apple look good. >(malware...)so why exactly is that a complaint? Because some good people at Apple prepared emails to sent tot he victims but Tim de…

"Sure dude, it was not the app name sent in plain text but the app certificate, what is the difference?" Every OS on the planet will verify developer certificates to ensure that the app you are using is genuine. Windows uses SmartScreen, for example. Like I said, it's the same protocol (OCSP - Online Certificate Status Protocol) Windows and other apps use for certificate verification, so Apple is hardly doing anythin…

>Every OS on the planet will verify developer certificates ...

In plain text? I know how this shit works, I digitally signed things before, and for this verification there is no need for internet. So copy pasted a lot of tech stuff there but it is complexly wrong. I could explain it how it works and why intenet is not needed but you could use google and figure it out, then find out what exactly Apple was checking(it was not the developer signiture).

>Understandable for three reasons: 1. It would cause major unwarranted panic that could cause additional attacks. I.e. A phishing scam saying "click here to be protected from the iPhone attack!"

Tim could hire some competent guy to write a clear email to prevent this. Also your point insinuates that you can cause a lot of damage to an iOS device with just an email and a link!! be careful Apple might not like you insinuating iOs is such terrible at security.

>2. The malware in question did not have any known function and didn't actually do anything or send anything to anyone. In other words, despite being prevalent, it was completely harmless.

Cure, malware sending data over the intenet behind the users back is harmless.

The conclusion is that Apple care more about PR, if Facebook would have sent one single bit of the users data Apple is putting a big article in the newspaper, if some malware is sending the exact same bit of data Apple changes it's mind last minute and keeps it hidden from the user.

>Android quickly copied Apple a

Ah, OK so Apple and Google shit stinks as bad, nothing new... Apple and Google are in the same boat, just one has some better PR and a big army of fanboys. Luckily the users found out and a judge forced this assholes companies to confess, otherwise next time the storage would say 500Gb but in reality would be half.

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