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I am so sick of this shit. Companies used to provide schematics with their products so you could fix it yourself if you had to. Now if you show someone how to do it online they might SUE you. I am sure you remember this too.

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>A little over a year ago, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on-board diagnostic systems and provide remote access to those systems and mechanical data to consumers and third-party independent repair shops. But as we’ve seen with other states that have passed right to reform laws (most notably New York), passing the law isn’t the end of the story. Corporate lobbyists have had great success not just watering these laws down before passage, but after voters approve them. They’ve also been swarmed by coordinated industry lawsuits and falsehood-spewing attacks.

I am so sick of this shit. Companies used to provide schematics with their products so you could fix it yourself if you had to. Now if you show someone how to do it online they might SUE you. @stupidbird I am sure you remember this too. Archive: https://archive.today/wUnwZ From the post: >>A little over a year ago, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on-board diagnostic systems and provide remote access to those systems and mechanical data to consumers and third-party independent repair shops. But as we’ve seen with other states that have passed right to reform laws (most notably New York), passing the law isn’t the end of the story. Corporate lobbyists have had great success not just watering these laws down before passage, but after voters approve them. They’ve also been swarmed by coordinated industry lawsuits and falsehood-spewing attacks.

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Yeah, that is true so I won't argue that. Most people just are not able to even read the manuals but the fact that it's often "illegal" to own them at all is insane. Let the people that can, do. Stop gate keeping that bullshit.

Then again, that is why apple won't sell you $15 in parts to fix a motherboard when they can sell you a $250 motherboard.

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Without defending any of these companies because they are all shit, parts may simply not exist. Apple, for example, probably builds X motherboards beyond what they need for the production run, and any parts you get are simply chance leftovers.

This was pioneered in the 60s and 70s by companies like Lafayette and Olson - they would contract Ching Chong Charlie's Stereo Manufacturing Company and Dairy Processing Plant to make them 10,000 stereo units. 9800 went to stores with 200 in reserve for replacements of the ones that failed. Failed units simply got tossed, or repaired by a local depot if it was an easy fix. There were no parts.

That in no means excuses Apple, or any other company. They need to make spares, but with razor thin margins in places that's difficult.

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My bigger problem is that Apple actively forces contracts on part's producers to make it so they are not allowed to sell the parts to ANYONE but apple. They also make it "illegal" for 3rd party's to have access to software that can pair sensors like the "lid closed" sensor cannot be paired if you replace it so shops are forced to try to "fix" a broken sensor than replace it with a part that works fine.

Apple is really bad for this shit which is why I used them as an example. There are probably over a hundred videos by Louis Rossmann showing the bullshit they do to make sure that a "repair" is damn near impossible and you are forced to buy a new motherboard because that is where they can get some extra profit.

In this case, all they have to do is not force a manufacture to not sell to 3rd parties and not keep the calibration tools under NDA. That is it. This is a scam.

Fuck them.

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Absolutely. The supply chain is rotten. They should not be allowed to lock out third party repairs.