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Feel free to vote yourself off the island or, perhaps, simply choose not to engage in topics that you don't care about.

It's an article about Apple, did you expect anything other than cultists defending their beloved multi-national corporation?

We still very much do want to, and enjoy, building our own computers. You just won't find many of those folks in the comments section of any article about Apple. Instead, what you'll find is mostly Apple cultists defending their beloved massive, multi-national corporation.

Those of us who build our own computers have very little interest in running Apple's software or OS. Instead, we run Linux or Windows. Software freedom is still alive and well in the land of Linux and FOSS.

The main difference is that computers have gotten much more complex than they were back in the day and operating systems are far more complex. The days of throwing together a kit running BASIC and writing your own tools are long gone, and this is mostly for the best. While there is a lot of educational value in that type of computing, we have come quite a long way from the fancy calculators of yore.

Oof, this just proves that their strategy works. By limiting the availability of panels, 3rd party repair shops are left with very poor quality rejects. What happens is that Apple disallows any of their suppliers to sell panels on the open market, so 3rd party repair shops aren't able to get good panels, then Apple points to the 3rd party repair shops with shitty screens and tells you that you shouldn't trust 3rd party repair shops because the quality of their repairs aren't up to par. If appropriate parts were available, there would be no reason that someone with basic soldering skills and the ability to use a screw driver wouldn't be able to replace your screen with one just as good as it came with out of the box.

You've fallen for the scam.

Is there anything about the Pixel 3 that doesn't suck?