Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use

Re:Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use by sjwright on Sunday June 21, 2020 @07:56PM (#23596294)

I agree with everything you said. You seem to be arguing against someone else, not with what I wrote.

Where I don’t agree is your inference that using a less common but still readily available screw head means you have “no right” to open your device.

Minor inconveniences are not the same as a loss of rights, and it’s astonishing that anyone would try to conflate the two.

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Re:Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use by mchaver on Monday June 22, 2020 @12:41PM (#23602287)

My apologies for misinterpreting what you intended to say.

> Minor inconveniences are not the same as a loss of rights, and it’s astonishing that anyone would try to conflate the two.

They are not entirely the same, but a world with less standards (that are high quality and open) seems like a better place. I enjoy being able to use USB ubiquitously. If every company had their own screw head standards that seems objectively worse. Apple's product design definitely feels like they want it to be as difficult as possible to open.

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