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

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• cybervseas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know Apple’s gonna Apple, but at some point you’d think someone over there would think this is all getting a bit silly…

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  • 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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    • 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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    • 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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• skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  so apple put a DRM on a glorified reed switch? and it’s legal somehow?

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  • TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Laws exist for everyday people like you and me, not for megacorps like Apple. Laws and regulations are just minor business expenses to them.

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    • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A fine is just an calculable price to do something wrong, business love them, from the classic study:

      rady.ucsd.edu/_files/faculty-research/…/fine.pdf

      Parents used to arrive late to collect their children, forcing a teacher to stay after closing time. We introduced a monetary fine for late-coming parents. As a result, the number of late-coming parents increased significantly.

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  • possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think its actually illegal to bypass DRM to fix it

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    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I love this world. Even though I bought it. It’s illegal to tinker with some components. And we’re all OK enough with it.

      I mean how did this get past the “Klaus Schwab is eating your children” crowd meanwhile we can’t legally reverse engineer things we bought

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    • palitu@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t think those is DRM, as it digital rights. I think they were using it as a comparison.

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• PeleSpirit@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “To whoever it is at Apple who decided to not make this available to technicians, ‘Fuck you, we win,’” he added.

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• Spike@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I was thinking about buying a Macbook Air and run Linux on it, just for the battery life. But then I read this shit and yea…

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  • antimongo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also the current Linux offerings for Apple Silicon (M1/M2) are very much “Beta”. And have some serious battery efficiency issues, don’t currently support audio drivers, have some peripheral problems, etc.

    Looking forward to using one once they get them up to speed though.

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    • Spike@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      True, true. I dont know about you guys, but I am not having a lot of fun buying and building computers lately. Shit like this headline doesnt help.

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  • TK420@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You will be disappointed in the battery life if you delete the thing that controls the battery life……

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  • skozzii@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Get a thinkpad x1 carbon, great battery life, great for Linux, and you can get them at all sorts of price points and usb-c charging.

    I just got a gen 8 refurb for $300 cdn and it’s an amazing machine for its purposes. Easy to swap out SSD and wireless card for wifi 6.

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  • tahoe@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Get it used. You get a Mac without giving Apple money. It’s all win.

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  • Bell@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    We need “linux-ability” score for laptops people are looking to convert.

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• MonkderZweite@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Never heard of a lid-closed sensor being broken. Seems common in Apple?

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