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A comment on MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Activation Lock. Parent comment

Re:MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Ac... by ghostpepper on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:25AM (#34505742)
The user who refused to unlock it before selling and/or the purchaser who did not check that it was unlocked before purchasing are the ones contributing to massive waste here, not Apple.
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Re:MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Ac... by widowlark on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:34AM (#34505928)
only due to the systemic waste apple has created by designing the system in this way
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Re:MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Ac... by rhn_mk1 on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:34AM (#34505925)
When that user has died or otherwise doesn't exist, then it's hard to blame them. The only remaining thread of blame leads to Apple.
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Re:MacBooks from 2020 Are Being Sold for Scrap Because of Ac... by ghostpepper on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @11:48AM (#34506167)
Unless this is what's happening in the majority of cases I don't think it's fair to focus on it. My hunch is that most of the laptops in that article are either stolen or dumped by users/corps who couldn't be bothered to unlock them.
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