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A part of me doesn't agree with the author that Apple's main goal is to make it so difficult for people to repair their own devices that most people just buy another phone.

Personally, I do a lot of DIY things and have always preferred to have the best quality tools for the jobs. I own several vehicles, none of which have under 100k miles on the odometer, and I do 95% of maintenance on them all. They range in age from 47 years to 7 years so I need to understand old-school mechanical things and new electronic-controlled things and as a result I look for tools that simplify troubleshooting and parts replacement.

I build with wood and metal too and am familiar with carpentry and cabinet building, stick frame construction, welding and cutting various metals, and finishing the resulting constructions so that they last a long time. All of this requires tools made specifically for the task. I am currently rebuilding a fireplace and hearth and refacing it with slate and basalt so I don't need to stare at all that ugly 70's brick.

I also dink around with everything that fails in an effort to understand what happened and whether it is an easy fix or it is time for a new gizmo. I have repaired our refrigerator, our dishwasher, clothes washer and dryer, and a number of small appliances. My usual method is to disassemble the device and troubleshoot until I find the failure point. I use online videos and manuals, blog and forum posts, etc to keep me moving in the right direction.

I have also replaced the battery, hinges, and screen on a MS Surface device and a couple of telephone screens. For this work I used iFixit as a resource and everything went smoothly as a result.

I still use my Windows Phone because it is a great phone and it still works, though that will end later this year when the 3G networks are removed from service, so I will likely end up with an iPhone.

So far I have not needed to replace an iPhone screen or battery on any of my family devices, but if I end up needing to do this in the future I am pretty sure that I would just go through the process that the author documents since he was able to accomplish the task with no serious issues. That's the actual goal here.

The fact that a user is able to employ exactly the same tools Apple uses without having to buy those tools and the entire procedure is documented with photos and concise descriptions of operations is a huge plus. I don't have time to examine every device or gadget that glitches or fails in an effort to guesstimate what I think needs to happen to make it work correctly.

I think this is a bargain for those of us who are inclined to repair our own devices.
Humans have always adapted and overcome significant challenge, even in the face of degrading societies and erosion of values. None of that stuff is new. I think one way we'd succeeded at doing this (and ultimately are failing at now) is by focusing on local community - our family, friends, close relatives and neighbors - instead of an unhealthy obsession for events on the world stage. Not to say we should be ignorant of global matters, but too much exposure and worrying about what can't really be changed is bound to be a harmful thing on our psychology and thus survival.
It's a zero sum because the persons and financial resources buying what you have to sell is a finite number. If they buy from me they probably wont buy from you.

This is independent of the relative merits of the products we are both selling. Maybe I forced my products to be shown in the major television channels, because I also own the television channels and you dont.
The "FUCKING" ukrainians were "OCCUPYING" them to the same degree as russians, since they were both a part of Soviet Union.
Hadn't heard of that one before - thanks! I'll keep an eye on it.
Serializing parts is another issue, but the author of the original article hardly mentions it or cares. The article, for what it states, is unnecessarily naïve about basic logistics.
Several years ago, I was traveling to Warsaw, Krakow, and Prague with another colleague from the US and one from Spain. It was interesting to observe both my US and Spanish colleague start looking for flights from Warsaw to Krakow and look at me sideways to suggest that we’d take the train.

We did, and it was vastly faster, cheaper, and more pleasant that flying, but it really showed the power of default thinking on people.
I really love Noam Chomsky works and know what interviews the academics have referring to. But let me ask the academics with a question which continues Noam's thought:

> Simply put, have you considered the possibility that Ukrainians would like to detach from the Russian sphere of influence due to a history of genocide, cultural oppression, and constant denial of the right to self-determination?

Have you considered the possibility that Ukraine is going to attach to the West's sphere of influence? Would Ukrainians really want it or they just want the invasion to be stopped?
You remind me of people so picky that they can never find a partner in life.
wrong attitude here, you can always work to change what you don't like.

There is always going to bet tough times. Just have to get through 'em. I believe majority of people are still fundamentally good. Even if they're not science majors... They still care about others. That's human nature.

Buck up champ and be the change you want to see in the world
It depends on the timeline.

I see a bright future for solar and it's only going to get brighter. When launch costs are sufficiently low or space-based industry is sufficiently bootstrapped, space-based solar power collecting is going to get even better. And yes you can collect power in space for ground-based usage. The interim solution is by transmitting power. Ultimately you can even run cables (this is a deep topic).

I see climate change as inevitable just because humanity won't inconvenience themselves let alone invest massively in solving the problem. The only solution will be economic.

I'm actually reasonably hopeful. Our memories of past times are inaccurate. Even your date range (1790 to 1990) includes smallpox, polio, the Civil War, two World Wars, dropping nuclear bombs on people (twice), numerous other wars and the Cold War.

Part of your issue with an aging society is that misplaced sense of nostalgia, that false belief in whatever you grew up with is better or even "normal". Whatever that time is, it's gone. You can't step in the same river twice.
I don't think the authors get paid either. So, no pay to authors nor reviewers. Does the editorial board get paid? Perhaps not.

> > That process costs money because it takes people and time to do it well. Journal subscriptions are often not enough to recover those costs.

Some of the items left to consider here are actually putting together the reviewed papers and publishing them. I would say the cost of these two items has gone down with the extended use of computers over the last 3 decades.

What other items are left? It would be interesting to know.
If you read this letter I encourage you to read the Chomsky interviews they linked. These interviews were my first experience reading things he wrote or said. After reading those it seems like the authors of this letter didn't really understand his statements.

I don't agree with everything Chomsky said, but he seems to try and understand all of the opposing viewpoints in this conflict as a way to figure out what the possible outcomes are. It didn't come across as blatantly or negligently pro-Russian to me.

For example, I think its pretty reasonable to hold the opinion that Ukraine probably isn't getting Crimea back without forcibly taking it (and I have no idea if they are capable of it). Chomsky and I could be wrong about this but I don't think it makes either of us pro-Russian shills. He's not attempting to predict what ought to happen in the fantasy world that we want to exist, he's trying to predict what may happen in the deeply flawed world that we actually have.
> roxen and apache were not two subtly different tools, they were, and still are, miles apart

Yeah that's what I suspected (read to the end of my comment).
looks like a very promising field
What is the range of the missiles? Helsinki is only 200km (125miles) away from the border. Isn't it better to launch from a more safe and far away place?
Re-read what I said. They always offer 0% or a discount. The discount + standard rates works out to cost less.
If you need to offer free trials to get work, do it. If you don’t need to offer free trials to get work, don’t.

A related concept is the idea of solving the biggest risk first in any problem. If your biggest risk as a freelancer is getting clients, then pricing at free initially might be a great idea. But if your biggest risk is something else, it might not make sense.

Once someone has many clients, they’re sometimes better off doing the total opposite end of the spectrum (the opposite of a good idea is also often a good idea!) charging a fee even for what would previously have been a free consult/intro call meeting (in some markets). High paying serious clients aren’t turned off by it, so time wasted shrinks drastically. And you can always skip the fee with a serious client you’re introduced to via a referral, because you don’t care about the fee on the consult call, it’s just a weeding mechanism and a signal of seriousness and legitimacy, so if both of those aims are already accomplished because it’s via an intro you trust who makes you look good, the consult fee doesn’t matter.
Nice trolling.
If that was true, GDP would never increase and we’d all still be eating raw fish in caves, the average total of everybody’s net worth being a few dates and some shiny sticks.

> if everybody applied this advice, would everybody be successful?

He literally says it would not work for everyone as it requires a baseline level of success already achieved.
> Is that happening with cars? Because you can trivially walk up to any dealership and buy brake parts.

You can buy batteries for Apple phones and DIY the install, too.

This article is the equivalent of someone who doesn’t know anything about cars trying to replace their head gasket and then being shocked that it requires tools to do it and there’s an official procedure with manufacturer recommended adhesives and tools to do it.

If journalists started writing “I tried to rebuild my engine” articles they’d read more or less like this iPhone article.

Modern engineering is complex. Crucifying a company for offering to rent custom tools to work on products is insane. This is a great move by Apple. At this point, the criticisms seem to be more about finding anything to complain about than being productive.
I am 62. About fifteen years ago I could have written almost exactly what you have written above. I blew up my long term marriage because of my fucked up thinking. It was a horrible mistake and one that I regret essentially every day.

Of course, maybe it's all different for you. I mean that. I'm only suggesting something to check.

Have a look at the material under "Nice Guy Syndrome" by Dr. Robert Glover. [1] Maybe get his audio book "No More Mr. Nice Guy" and listen to it for a bit, and see how well it fits or does not fit your situation.

[1] https://drglover.com
That, and the missing meta/hyper key either on the left hand side of the spacebar, or close to the thumbs.
>this is a case of Apple don’t want to offer that choice because they make money off of the repairs.

Apple is on record saying they lose money on repair services. Or do you think they're just lying about that too?
So you're saying it's ok for Cops to come check my door every day? Which is basically what they are doing. I have the logs to prove this.
That’s not something you or the developer if this software have the authority to decide.
In the Azerbaijan - Armenian conflict Turkey did not take any causalities either.
You really should read the book to make informed takes on this topic
All of that is true. The problem is that both sets of oligarchs are currently fine; Russia is attacking everyone -else- in Ukraine. I know people personally who are displaced. There are refugees in what used to be my personal office. The Russian oligarchs are doing this unilaterally, and can stop any time. The west is sending only gadgets, not men, and regular Ukrainians are fighting the fight. (They too can stop any time, but it’s their country.) While I recognize why Russians are upset, they could have handled this better.
I feel like there’s a lot of leaps in your “logical construct” there.

First and foremost, did YC approve of this “core business model”? Sure, the founders got into YC, but did they pivot during the program (frequently happens)? And while YC may be on the board, they don’t have controlling interest either.

So yeah, there’s a lot of scenarios where people “you know” and/or “partner with” do unethical things, but that fact alone doesn’t mean you are unethical. You very well could be, but guilt by association isn’t enough proof here imho.
right, but that's not on his LinkedIn.
> I think even a person who is surrounded by people all the time can suddenly get this emotion of loneliness if he suddenly finds himself alone and everyone else is out to a party

Reminds me of some story I heard (would be great if someone has a source) that you can spot who has more chance of dying of suicide in social graphs, because they are connected to (perhaps many) people but are not part of a single clique (group)
My fairphone battery is removable with no screwdrivers whatsoever.
If you want to get into PCB design, https://github.com/ergogen/ergogen is a fantastic tool to get you started. I designed my first custom keyboard with it, going in with no knowledge of PCB design.
But that would be expensive, compared to just painting the road. And so we get into opportunity cost. Resources are finite, and even deciding what to do costs resources which you then can't expend on doing something.

In my country you can't just paint the road, at all, the minimum intervention is a lit crossing, orange lamps at each side, called "Belisha Beacons", which together with the paint forms a mandatory (ie if somebody is on the crossing or appears to be intending to cross vehicles must stop) crossing. This means you need electric power (for the lighting) and the resulting crossing is significantly safer but more expensive.

Even deciding whether, and how, to allow the simpler painted crossings is a significant opportunity cost, it would require legislation, and the government has other things it wants to do (e.g. sell off irreplaceable cultural treasures to spite enemies) with that legislative time.
8 oz is 227 grams

The iPhone 13 Pro Max is 8.46 ounces (240 grams)

The iPhone 13 Pro is 7.19 ounces (204 grams)

The Defy is only 11% heavier than the iPhone 13 Pro, and lighter than the iPhone 13 Pro Max.

Doesn't seem like much of a compromise to me.
There will never be a level playing field. People are different. “Pushing to level the playing field” is just doublespeak for authoritarianism.

Just a quick question, who will be in charge of “leveling the playing field”? Who gets to choose what criteria determines whether it’s level or not? Do you think they might have some advantage? Will it be a level field for them?
I've tried it. And TBH, I don't get all the hype. It was usable, but I didn't see anywhere near enough appeal to justify investing the time/energy to learn Jetbrains as well as I've learned Eclipse over the years. And for its warts, Eclipse pretty much "just works" at this point, especially given that I have suitable hardware for it now. I think a lot of my issues with Eclipse in the past where pretty directly attributable to running on under-powered hardware.
For anyone looking at self pay for an MRI in the US, there's an organization that offers that and other imaging services for the uninsured at $325 or less. https://radiologyassist.com/MRI.html
Sympathy for Apple or not, the issue is that this proposed solution by Apple obviously isn't scalable.

So if the solution the problem isn't scalable, is it really a solution?

And if Apple, a company renowned for their uncanny ability to identify novel, game-changing solutions to problems produces this as their 'solution' can you honestly say that they gave it their all on this one?

Apple can't win here if they don't try.
It's not that big of a deal tbh and I'm actually not sure there's even a practical safety issue, though there could be bugs if the compiler makes some optimizations based on that (unlikely imo).

AFAIK on any typical platform there's no way you'd have "tearing" for a single byte ie: this will never store an invalid boolean representation.
Not sure why you are getting downvotes, this is a sound take.

I'll springboard off it: what are some good ways to network? I'm 40 and have been ignoring these skills for too long, opting for the "hard work" path, and seeing the limits of that. Confs? Open source? Talks? Twitter (please no)?
Apple isn’t making these design choices to inhibit repairs.

The advanced sealing techniques are used for real benefits like water resistance and reduced size, which are a much bigger priority for the average consumer than being able to replace batteries at home.
There are plenty of talented programmers here who value prose as a means to communicate clearly. Your post failed to do that, and your sarcasm and insults to the intelligence and motives of other commenters are against the spirit of this place.
It's designed to make the process complicated and financially risky. That is the malicious part.
Heraclitus. Last sentence. A man for the ages.
dosemu can do this with the -t option, I have used this to run the Turbo Pascal UI on a terminal, works great. Have to make sure that the terminal width is exactly 80 columns.
All creditable goal. What about warefare?
What people want is a low cost third party shop to replace batteries
‘What are our lives for?’: a philosopher answers kids’ existential questions
Yeah really that's what religion is in this context: you find connection in the fact that you both suspended that part of your critical thinking. I say this as a religious person too, although one that hasn't found much particular community, since I am in a religion that doesn't have such things very strongly
all i see is diminishing returns, marketing and fantasies.

4MB used to make people believe they'd do everything for life, accounting, programming, graphics whatever. It was infinite joy with only 320x200 points.

Now you sell a 4k capable pocket datacenter running on 5W and people are barely satisfied for a year.
> No one driving a Tesla would ever be confused about this.

Plainly false. Consider this guy, who was seen sleeping at the wheel three times, relying on the car to drive itself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgnzK07cQkY
Wonder if you could get anywhere revisiting this with modern materials science? Materials have come a really long way in the past 60+ years.
Right, true--the term I've most often heard in Western circles these days is "Hindu-Arabic" numerals, but I didn't want to confuse.
Ergo 4000 are good if you don’t require mechanical keys, I’ve used them for years and years.
Yeah I would say so. People used to go to church, now they don't, and nothing has replaced it. Of course loneliness will increase
Me too, the problem is that for such a thing to exist at scale we have to make the simply awful protoypes that people keep coming up with financially successful. Which means paying as much or more as you would for a cutting edge flagship for a janky mess that uses technology that's several generations behind and hope that it supports our carrier.
It’s all relative. My first hard drive was a Seagate ST-251 40 MB MFM hard drive on my 10 MHz Intel 8088 CPU. It cost about $300 at the time and perpetually remained about 80% full.

The last hard drive I bought was a Seagate Exos X18 18 TB Sata hard drive on my 3.6 GHz AMD Ryzen 7 3700X CPU. It cost about $300 and has perpetually remained about 80% full.
If it was this simple, the other manufacturers would be doing this. But it is not this simple. If the device can open easily using basic tools, it can’t be thin, light and waterproof.

But anyway, I didn’t hear Apple ‘complaining about having no longer having reasonable options remaining’. I heard you complaining about Apple providing the tools and parts required to repair their phones.
I guess for now we can't know - but were they truly modern humans? They might have had the same hardware but the cultural/consciousness software may have been far different than what we have today. It's fun to think about, books like The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind or the Sapiens both explore some version of this.
It’s because they want all the benefits of the iPhone and all of the openness and repair ability of the PinePhone, but they don’t want to have to compromise anywhere.

The reality is that the magical solution doesn’t exist and can’t practically exist. There would be major tradeoffs with much of what’s being suggested in this thread, many of which would make the phone undesirable to the people demanding it.
Buckminister Fuller wrote a book titled ‘Utopia or Oblivion?’ which I always thought was a false choice. Heaven and Hell are states of mind you can experience right now.
Agreed. If the code is in GitHub, it's incredibly easy to create a simple github actions workflow that could run the app.
The autocorrect system might be able to do better if it had an understanding of grammar and proper english like GPT3, and could actually fill in missing words, replace words, etc
On its face that seems impossible to be true. Given any bet you could calculate the probability that the bot would fold given an all in raise if you had perfect knowledge of the bot and abuse it
> The problem with owning things is that it is usually zero-sum.

Can you give some examples? Certainly this is party true with real-estate in some large cities, but there are lots of places where land is available and real-estate isn’t yet zero-sum. I’m having a hard time seeing other examples, so I’m wondering why you said “usually”. I would assume that Sam is also referring to software, where ownership means owning all parts of production, or means owning the rights to IP & creative work. In the software startup and in the creative art sense, I don’t think ownership is zero-sum at all. Ownership there is more about having control over the income and expenses of all parts of your business, and avoid rental traps. In general, this does seem like good sound advice to me.

> Perhaps I’m overly cynical but I think a better title would be: “how to rig the system to your advantage”.

That does seem a bit cynical when the majority of points were things like ‘work really hard’ and ‘believe in yourself’ and ‘think independently’. It’s hard to even find something I would consider ‘rigging the system’ - like owning things and having a network are the only two, but those are pretty generic and more centered on what I should do more than affecting the system.

Not that there’s anything wrong with being cynical. ;) We can’t all be billionaires, and using the Forbes list as the example of success is questionable and gives real reason to be cynical. I’m wondering what your list of how to be successful looks like, and what makes it different?
It is possible that they have read enough about NATO’s formation, its murky history, and have a good idea about its function.

That is, if by left, you mean socialists rather than liberals.
Well yes, but the whole point of this thread is servers which don't include intermediate certs in the regular handshake. The article says about this:

> The website worked in other browsers because browsers silently cache intermediate TLS certificates that they've seen before, in addition to being willing to download them under the right circumstances.

I understood that as "some clients can recover from that situation by either caching the certs from a previous handshake or somehow downloading them on their own". And I was curious about the last point.
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