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  • Apple has a long history of working against right to repair and third party repair shops. This includes making it difficult for third parties to source the parts needed and changing the designs to requiring part pairing in the name of security. It got to the point where repair shops were buying broken Apple products so they could hopefully source the parts needed.

    Looking through what they provided now, it's basic stuff any third party repair shop could do if they could source the parts. It's useful. However good electronic technicians can go beyond that and do board level repairs. But that requires schematics and diagrams. A lot of times they would have to get those through other parties who in turn got them through less than official means or violated NDAs.

    Guess what Apple isn't providing? Board level information. This is just doing the minimum the law requires them to do.

    Bonus: Louis Rossmann talks about Apple's history of right to repair 10 minute video

  • Looks like someone is copying the contents of news articles from various sites, but there is no attribution or anything to tell you where it is from. Searching for the title I found the Time article they copied.

    https://time.com/7020451/taylor-swift-kamala-harris-donald-trump-ai/

    I would treat them with suspicion though. Not sure if they would start sneaking some other stuff in there in a few weeks or months.

  • Holy hell! It's over 19 pages long, and that's over the past day. They even went as far as trying to ban admins.

    Edit: it looks like they only tried to ban one admin. I thought I had saw more, but I guess not. But damn, talk about sour grapes.

  • The dog ate his concept of prepared notes.

  • Microsoft really needs an antitrust smackdown with their repeated behavior.

  • Only the bad cat owners. The good ones can predict when there's mischief in their eye.