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

Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by JKCalhoun on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:29AM (#27255654)

Interesting. I only stumbled upon one of his repair videos a few years back — was frankly blown away by his meticulous identification and cross referencing of specific chips, his ability to replace surface-mount components.

It left me with an appreciation for someone who can dedicate themselves to this depth of esoterica and make something I thought impossible look ... doable by an enthusiast?

But from your comment I wonder about that audience you mention: anti-Apple.

Because something that I also took away from his videos was this sense that technology, and I'm talking about the day to day things in our lives, has gone completely beyond any normal person's ability to repair, diagnose, or, really, understand at all.

I was careful not to say he made the repairs look easy — he made repair look doable but also underscored just what the layman is up against (SMDs, obscure codes on chips that are little bigger than fleas, specialized tools to open cases, paper-thin ribbon cables, etc.).

I think his audience is broader than just anti-Apple. Perhaps they're upset about all of the ways in which we have become enslaved to devices we can't understand.

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by webmobdev on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:45AM (#27255834)

    I'm talking about the day to day things in our lives, has gone completely beyond any normal person's ability to repair, diagnose, or, really, understand at all.

A "normal" person's inability to understand or repair is limited by the lack of the literature, tools and parts - not because technology has "advanced". (To a lay person, any technology that they doesn't understand is akin to magic to them). And this is ignoring the glaring obvious - things are today being deliberately designed to be unrepairable because that's more profitable for company's like Apple that even lobby against any Right to Repair legislation. Remember, if they want these companies can design things to be easily repairable - e.g. concept https://frame.work/blog/introducing-the-framework-laptop

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by rdedev on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:32AM (#27255694)

He had a couple of videos where he went looking for buying a new office space. Those were, in his words, the best performing videos of his channel. Real estate stuff. A lot of the people who watch his stuff relate to his frustrations on a personal level

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