More specifically they don’t make “parts” available but “parts assemblies” - a large collection of parts attached together. Replacing one part requires buying ones you do not need and replacement is merely a fallback when you can’t actually repair the part. Repair can require parts of a part (e.g. a chip on a circuit board).

Yep. If your USB port breaks, they want you to replace the entire motherboard for a thousand bucks.

In other words, they took the Apple approach to right to repair. Disappointing but not unexpected. This is the same company that got rid of their “don’t be evil” motto after all.

Yeah he rambles in his videos, sometimes so much I want him to just stick to the topic, and he could benefit from writing a script, but calling someone “insufferable” because of that seems pretty harsh, especially when they’ve been a massive proponent of right to repair (and even successfully had some laws changed), open source, and privacy.

This guy was offered an insane salary for doing engineering for US defense contracts and turned it down because he felt like calling out bad practices and improving repairability on our devices was a better thing to do. I can respect that. Someone putting their principles before simply making as much bank as possible.

Yeah, he has a link to his repair business in his video description and occasionally mentions he has a repair business or bullshit anti-repair stuff the repair shop has to deal with. I don’t see what’s so bad about that.

Not everyone has the time, ability, or tools to repair everything themselves at home. Repair shops are a good thing. Would you rather things just be discarded when the battery dies or the screen gets a crack?

I really liked his relaxing, calm MacBook repair and data recovery videos, where you could learn about soldering and electronics repair while watching. And I had no problem with a little bit of honest advertising for his own business.

While the right to repair is important, his videos about it are a lot of rambling and complaining about the same thing again and again. The titles are also often misleading or click baity. I can’t watch them either. I hope they work for the right people, though.

But if you just watch his videos and buy his stuff he will teach you how to repair yours!11! /s

The few times I watched his videos, he sounded like a libertarian bro, saying that if you just put the effort, you too can become successful. You just have to pull yourself by the bootstraps or something. He’s showing you everything you need to know to be as successful as him! And maybe it was sarcasm and I didn’t catch it but at one point he muttered something about Trump fixing the potholes of New York. That’s about when I stopped taking him seriously.

He’s still an important voice for the right to repair movement but you’re right. I also can’t stand him. Unfortunately he has very dedicated/vocal eeehm, fans, so legitimate remarks on him are often met with downvotes.

I totally agree. I didn’t know him until I saw a couple of his videos posted in Lemmy and I can’t stand the guy.

At this point I’d guess that the reason for his rambles is to make more money through monetisation.

Posting the URL grabbed the first line of the video description which is an ad for his repair business.

A person who repairs is talking about right to repair.

because it is. Every time I see one of this guy’s videos posted it ends up being a clickbait video to promote his business.

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