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TL;DR: a repair shop owner from Germany managed to create a tool to calibrate the display angle sensor (used to trigger sleeping on Macs when the lid is closed)

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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago (9 children)

What a condescending childish uninformed piece of writing in this link.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Actually... no. The author is right in the cases he mentioned. Not releasing calibration tools and such is not "Anti repair" that's just "not pro repair" which is not the same thing. Apple is anti-repair. A 100%. Just not in the cases the text mentions. If they really wanted to be anti repair in their components, they could lock shit down far more than they do. Design wise, Apple is not trying to hold you back, they just do not give a fuck if you can repair anything they build.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

Not releasing calibration tools and such is not "Anti repair" that's just "not pro repair"

Not pro repair is anti repair. Making it hard to fix the shit you own by obfuscating what you have to do to fix it is anti repair.

If they didn't obfuscate it there would be many tools out there already to let it be done. Also, basically every other laptop doesn't have these random calibration issues. Why would Apple be so unique?

Design wise, Apple is not trying to hold you back, they just do not give a fuck if you can repair anything they build.

They literally serial lock almost half of their parts.

[–] bighi 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we say “not pro repair” is “anti-repair”, we lose the meaning of what being anti-repair is.

Both are not helping the consumer, but one much more than the other.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If we say “not pro repair” is “anti-repair”, we lose the meaning of what being anti-repair is.

Then yell at the people trying to redefine apple as "not pro repair". They're the ones twisting the definition.

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