Comment on DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks

cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’m sure all the normal workers think a lot of things they do is absurd and borderline criminal but money is money so they don’t care.

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  • filister@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    At the end of the day, those restrictions are imposed on their engineers by the management in order to pump even higher their stock.

    And unless there aren’t any clear legal regulations preventing them doing so, they will continue with those scummy practices.

    That is one of the reasons why I refuse to buy any of their products and if a critical mass refuses to do so, this will directly impact their books and force them to do some corrections.

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    • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      regulations

      Keyword.

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  • psivchaz@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hol up. We’re not talking about murder, we’re talking about inconveniencing consumers. Engineers are not the wealthy, they are the middle class. They live in this capitalist hellscape, too. Principled stands are great, but if your proposed solution is that people should put their ability to get healthcare, food, and shelter on the line to not inconvenience consumers because legislation and regulation are too hard… That seems a bit much. Work on fixing the system rather than blaming the cogs.

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    • Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      ? I’m not blaming the workers

      I’m saying I feel all the workers think the companies are doing shady wrong things but do it anyways because it’s a paycheck even though they themselves are technically screwing themselves over as the consumers

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  • atk007@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    borderline criminal but money is money

    Like any mafia’s motto

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• A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d wager 80% of the cost of every apple device is nothing but covering the costs of research and development for fucking customers in the ass. they’ve put DRM on hall effect sensors, for fucks sake. All they do is detect the lid being closed, and you cant change them between computers.

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