Csepp 🌢
I'd like to ask everyone even mildly excited about the new #Apple hardware to look at some graphs of environmental indicators and ask if more unrepairable novelty hardware is something we should be using finite natural resources on right now.
Jun 5, 2023 at 10:50pmWeb
Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 6, 2023

@csepp That's why I #WontBuy any #Apple hardware, since their #AntiRepair design is an #EnvoirmentalCrime on it's own.

the only winning move is work towards a #repairable alternative:
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/nucbook

GitHub - KBtechnologies/nucbook: A modular & open design 13" Notebook that can be customized and upgraded to fit user's needs

A modular & open design 13" Notebook that can be customized and upgraded to fit user's needs - KBtechnologies/nucbook

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Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 6, 2023

@csepp Also #Apple does purposefully make their devices #unrepairable by restricting #suppliers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ2jyo7pAmE

Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 6, 2023
@csepp and they purposefully design devices to be more failure-prone...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cNg_ifibCQ
Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 6, 2023

@csepp just by stats and facts #Apple devices are just unrepairable shit and they got worse...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8

Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 6, 2023

@csepp The sheer fact that the #MacPro doesn't come with user-replaceable #RAM nor #SSD's is a clear #WontBuy & #disrecommendation, since even #Microsoft got pushed into making the #SSD - which will INEVITABLY FAIL OVER USEAGE LIKE THE BATTERY - replaceable on the #SurfaceLaptop3:

https://youtu.be/OpXizbzeRoc

Surface Laptop 3 (13.5 inch) Teardown-Still the Least Repairable Laptop Ever???

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Show threadAhri Boy (backup)Jun 6, 2023
@kkarhan @csepp SSD should not be permanently soldered into the motherboard.
Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 6, 2023

@ahriboy @csepp neither should be RAM nor should batteries be allowed to be glued in!

Not to mention that #Apple had the audacity to release a #MacPro with unreplaceable RAM & SSDs!

Show threadKevin Karhan Jun 6, 2023
@ahriboy @csepp It's as much of a shitshow like the #SurfaceLaptop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAI6yIZI3rg
Microsoft Surface Laptop Teardown!

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Show threadAhri Boy (backup)Jun 6, 2023
@kkarhan @csepp yeah, it was a mistake for OEMs to permanently glue the components
Show threadMoved to @[email protected]Jun 6, 2023
@kkarhan @ahriboy @csepp Welcome to ARM computing.
Here is the trade offer:
They give you: Great instruction set.
You give them: All hability to easily upgrade / fix the products you buy.
Show threadMoved to @[email protected]Jun 6, 2023
@kkarhan @ahriboy @csepp I'll stick to x86_64 for as long as I can. Fuck ARM, you won't turn all my computers into SOCs. If I want an SOC I'll buy an offbrand Raspberry PI for 80 bucks, not an apple computer for 3k.
Show threadJonasNov 20, 2023
@kkarhan
Weird thing that they cite Framework but don't cite MNT Reform machines as reference
@csepp
Show threadpancake Jun 7, 2023
@csepp maybe better focus on chinese manufacturing crappy android devices which cover 90% of the market and environmental effect. Apple almost manufacturers on demand and hardware life is way longer
Show threadCsepp 🌢Jun 7, 2023
@pancake They are not the ones lobbying against right to repair laws though. But certainly fuck them too.
Show threadCsepp 🌢Jun 7, 2023
@pancake I guess the more general point is: don't buy any new shiny crap. It just so happens that Apple is currently very visibly pushing a whole new slew of shiny crap, hence the post.
Show threadMOVED TO POLYMATHS (Krafter)Nov 20, 2023
@csepp And this is why my next laptop will be a Framework.