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No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple's anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can't even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don't even own it.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Does someone forbid you from repairing it?

They sign and lock hardware to prevent you from swapping parts. How do you not see this as bad and anti-consumer? Like they are actively preventing you from repairing something for no reason.

[–] synceDD 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's talking about the right to repair you're own stuff or have someone look at it.

Your argument was this, not anti-consumer, so even though none of his sources mentioned a right to repair by government, only a right to own, a private entity making their parts hard to swap would not necessarily infringe on that repair right, as far as we are concerned it could only cover being allowed to attempt whatever repairs you want. Now, if you manage to find a source about that right to repair that ALSO mentions easy repairs by third parties, we can argue further

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Right to repair isn't a law yet in most places. You seem have have missed that whole debacle.

Edit: my country actually has right to repair laws: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-57665593

[–] synceDD 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It is not a law in most places yet and yet you defended the other guy when you said he was claiming apple is violating his repair rights and that I was arguing in bad faith??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And since when do I care about the law? Also there are laws about repair in my country.

[–] synceDD 1 points 1 year ago

You dont care about law after debating its definition for 10 comments and defending others mentioning it nice