Why does it feel like this post is an ad?
[Louis Rossmann] Google supports right to repair? Think again.
Submitted 10 months ago by hal_5700X@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/google-supports-right-to-repair-think:7
Comments
harry_balzac@lemmy.world 10 months ago
tabular@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Posting the URL grabbed the first line of the video description which is an ad for his repair business.
A person who repairs is talking about right to repair.
glibg10b@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
Right to repair benefits consumers, whether he makes money from it or not
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Just typical shitty YouTube clickbaiting
JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
For the people in the comments not in the know: Rossmann is a respected voice for this sort of thing, even if this post looks like an ad. He’s not one of the bad ones (yet).
long_chicken_boat@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
this guy is insufferable. these videos are just unnecessarily long speeches that would fit an article so much better than a video.
not to mention that his whole YouTube channel is disguised advertisement for their businesses.
morhp@lemmynsfw.com 10 months ago
I really liked his relaxing, calm MacBook repair and data recovery videos, where you could learn about soldering and electronics repair while watching. And I had no problem with a little bit of honest advertising for his own business.
While the right to repair is important, his videos about it are a lot of rambling and complaining about the same thing again and again. The titles are also often misleading or click baity. I can’t watch them either. I hope they work for the right people, though.
pedz@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
But if you just watch his videos and buy his stuff he will teach you how to repair yours!11! /s
The few times I watched his videos, he sounded like a libertarian bro. And maybe it was sarcasm and I didn’t catch it but at one point he muttered something about Trump fixing the potholes of New York. That’s about when I stopped taking him seriously.
He’s still an important voice for the right to repair movement but you’re right. I also can’t stand him. Unfortunately he has very dedicated/vocal eeehm, fans, so legitimate remarks on him are often met with downvotes.
A_Very_Big_Fan@lemmy.world 9 months ago
For the last 3 years he’s been saying it’s no longer possible to be successful financially doing what he does
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
Louis has a tendency to ramble so I’ll give you the tl:dw
Google plans to make parts available but at the level that they should, so they’ll continue to be absurdly expensive to the point that it’s too expensive to even bother.
tabular@lemmy.world 10 months ago
More specifically they don’t make “parts” available but “parts assemblies” - a large collection of parts attached together. Replacing one part requires buying ones you do not need, and replacing a part is a fallback when you can’t actually repair the part, which can require parts of a part (e.g. a chip on a circuit board).
poopkins@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah, so this is effectively identical to Apple’s approach to repairability.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 10 months ago
No, I don’t think Apple sells any components at all and they intentionally make sure the phone doesn’t work properly after you replace them.
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Yep. If your USB port breaks, they want you to replace the entire motherboard for a thousand bucks.
Deello@lemm.ee 9 months ago
In other words, they took the Apple approach to right to repair. Disappointing but not unexpected. This is the same company that got rid of their “don’t be evil” motto after all.