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We beat Apple at their own game - let the unauthorized calibrations BEGIN! (youtu.be)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Good for them, but this whole clickbait nonsense about Apple “locking” things is just that, nonsense.

Hector Martin, creator of Asahi Linux said it best so instead of repeating his words I’ll just leave a link to his comments on the matter: https://social.treehouse.systems/@marcan/110803356645502548

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What a condescending childish uninformed piece of writing in this link.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 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…

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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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