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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.

i don't do it in a competitive way. it's not "let's see how fast i can do the dishes." it started as "i have time blindness, so let's take an active step to fix that! if my frequent problems are thinking i got plany of time when i do not have any fucking time, or thinking i do not have any fucking time when in fact i got plany of time, it certainly can't hurt to try to figure out how long stuff actually takes!" i'm not setting a timer, i'm looking at the clock when i start something and then again when i finish and going, ah, that took about twenty minutes, good to know.

it's helped with time blindness. that's what i expected it to help with and i was right. go me! i've even posted about it before.

i did not expect it to fix the executive dysfunction. i did not expect this to result in me looking at the dishes and going "god i do not have the fucking energy for that bullshit" only to have this fucking voice in my head go "really? it's gonna take what, eight minutes?" and i'm like. "fuckin. listen. it's almost goddamn midnight i'm not doing the dishes right now." and the voice is like "almost midnight eh? how almost? ten of? so it'll still be almost midnight when you're done? it won't even take long enough to meaningfully change your perception of what time it is? you can't do it? not even for tomorrow you?" and suddenly i'm loading the dishes in the dishwasher.

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> opens my email

> disables a new AI feature that was turned on by default

> launches a software

And sure, you can dismiss these people as lazy, as stupid, as being elderly and so who cares. But from my 17 years of experience, I can tell you that technical instinct and ability varies widely across the entire adult spectrum. And I can also tell you that people have different strengths, and that just because someone isn't good with computers doesn't mean they aren't smart as hell.

And I can also say, again, that it really doesn't matter.