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That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

If you read or listened to the full quote, you would know that the next sentence she says is "Because I don’t know that it’s going to get done right now, the way this Congress is composed and the way they have been treating civil rights issues.” I.E., in this moment we need to be focused on the midterms because the current makeup of Congress is absolutely not going to pass the VRA, there is zero hope of that happening "anytime soon" aka before the midterms. It might not be able to be passed after the midterms due to the presidential veto and how slim the majority in Congress might be.

In no way does she say that the VRA will never be passed or should not be revived eventually; she in fact says the opposite, that she hopes it will be passed by a new, more progressive Congress and Presidential administration. But if we don't focus on the midterms right now, we may never get those things!!!!!!

Also the comment about her losing the election because "nobody likes her" - the 2024 election was incredibly close, especially considering she only ran for 107 days. AND considering she is a black & Asian woman, and that people are incredibly biased against those groups. Despite those factors, Kamala Harris came very very very close to becoming president and polling suggests she is the leading Democratic candidate for 2028 by a HUGE margin. "Nobody likes her" is not merely reductive, it's fucking stupid and completely incorrect.

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