TL;DR: a repair shop owner from Germany managed to create a tool to calibrate the display angle sensor (used to trigger sleeping on Macs when the lid is closed)

      • lazyvar@programming.dev
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        1 year ago

        Dude has reverse engineered pretty much the entire hardware stack of Macs to be able to provide the global community with Asahi, but because he says something you disagree with he’s supposedly “uninformed”.

        Talk about childish…

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        1 year ago

        Actually… no. The author is right in the cases he mentioned. Not releasing calibration tools and such is not “Anti repair” that’s just “not pro repair” which is not the same thing. Apple is anti-repair. A 100%. Just not in the cases the text mentions. If they really wanted to be anti repair in their components, they could lock shit down far more than they do. Design wise, Apple is not trying to hold you back, they just do not give a fuck if you can repair anything they build.

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          Not releasing calibration tools and such is not “Anti repair” that’s just “not pro repair”

          Not pro repair is anti repair. Making it hard to fix the shit you own by obfuscating what you have to do to fix it is anti repair.

          If they didn’t obfuscate it there would be many tools out there already to let it be done. Also, basically every other laptop doesn’t have these random calibration issues. Why would Apple be so unique?

          Design wise, Apple is not trying to hold you back, they just do not give a fuck if you can repair anything they build.

          They literally serial lock almost half of their parts.

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      1 year ago

      It just seems to me that Martin is arguing on technicalities. Ultimately for the end user, regardless of the why behind parts not working when swapped, the parts are not replaceable, and Apple does not make the required tools available (such as calibration software) so that third party repair can be done properly. It’s still anti repair for the end user.

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        1 year ago

        For one it’s just technicalities for another it’s the distinction between a company going out of their way to block repairs or a company just not caring and mainly focussing on their own repair process.