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Alice in Wonderland (1951)

That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

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This is really important and let me tell you why.

My mom has an iPhone 6 Plus and hasn’t even had it for a year when one day it suddenly died and would not charge. So she took it to an authorized Apple repair place and they charged her $50 for a diagnostic only to tell her that she would have to buy a brand new phone.

So she decided to go to the AT&T store to talk to our usual guy that upgrades our phones and handles any problems for us. She tells him what’s wrong and he takes her phone to the back only to come out two minutes later, puts her phone on charge and it comes back to life. 

She asks him what was wrong with it that he managed to somehow fix when the people at the “authorized apple repair place” couldn’t. And you know what he told her?

“There was just a bit of fuzz in the charging port.”

I FUCKING KNEW IT. Listen, I have a MacBook from college. The charger has died twice, and I had to get a new one. This happened for two years in a row around the same time each year. I’m fucking convinced that their hardware is rigged to “expire” in order to force people to keep buying their shit.

Wait, people are just now learning that Apple has some of the shadiest business practices?

You know this isn’t really just apple, company’s do this all the time, everything is rigged to expire and all they want is your money.

Ohhh no no no, this IS JUST Apple. 

All companies want you to buy their new products. None have gone to the lengths that Apple Inc. has gone to make end user repairs as impossible as is legally viable. I have been repairing electronics and computer systems privately, commercially and active duty in the US military for about 30 years. 

Apple puts extra effort into special hardware requiring proprietary tools that are only legally produced by their licensed manufacturer and can only be purchased through licensed repair shops if at all. 

Companies like iFixit can only exist as profit making companies because they are able to make workaround tools and kits that are still profitable but less of a blatant ripoff than Apple. 

Apple has been doing this forever. The way Apple treats consumers is abysmal, and people still eat their products up.

This is called “planned obsolescence” - many companies do it, but Apple has made it into an art. Basically, companies - tech companies in particular - have realized that if their products are manufactured too well, they won’t be able to sell you a new one in three years. So, in order to keep consumers coming back for more, they design your gadgets to “expire” in all manner of ways; Apple is infamous for pushing software updates that render older model phones and computers useless right before releasing a new product so that consumers will be forced to purchase the newest version of a gadget they already have.

The best way to fight back against this kind of wasteful, predatory, capitalistic schlock is to learn more about how your gadgets work so that you can repair them instead of replacing them. This man is doing the Lord’s work.

I get asked a lot in stream about maintaining my 10 year old mac as my main comp and why I won’t be getting a new one when I can’t maintain it anymore. This bullshit is why. I want this here so I can point to it as I divolve into unintelligible on screen ramblings about my adventures in apple upkeep. Get fucked so hard, Apple.

El presidente de Uganda quiere prohibir el sexo oral porque «la boca es para comer»

“Si tú pones la boca ahí, te pueden entrar gusanos en el estómago”, manifestó.

Gratitud.

Marta se queja de la falta de gratitud de alguien a quien consideraba amiga. Es comprensible su perplejidad, pero me permito recomendarle que hay que estar muy preparado para cosas así. 

No tiene vuelta de hoja: los hay que agradecen los favores recibidos, y los hay que se vengan de ellos. No sabría decir yo cuál de los grupos es el más numeroso. Quiero pensar que el primero.

Es uno más entre los grandes enigmas éticos. El Bien no siempre produce el Bien. Pero el Mal casi siempre provoca el Mal. Quien ha recibido castigos físicos en su infancia tiende a ser violento cuando llega a la edad adulta. El estudiante o el soldado que ha sufrido las peores novatadas acaba siendo el mayor defensor de la humilación a las promociones que le siguen. Quien ha recibido gritos, tiende a gritar. Quien ha sido maltratado o discriminado, tiende a maltratar o discriminar. Los esclavos liberados que retornaron Africa tras la Guerra de Secesión norteamericana, se apresuraron a esclavizar a sus iguales en Liberia, lo que convirtió a ese país en el pionero del continente africano en la implantación del apartheid. Y esto ocurrió mucho antes que el apartheid sudafricano, que solo se formalizó en favor de los blancos hace 70 años. Kapuscinsky trata el tema con elocuencia.

Se diría que el Mal es contagioso. Pero el principio contrario no siempre lo es. Esa terrible asimetría pide más de nosotros. Nos obliga a elevar la apuesta por el Bien. Y no es fácil.

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a fucking gift to humanity 

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, April 23, 1924

The Daily Times, New Philadelphia, Ohio, April 7, 1924

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Así mola más el biathlon

Kedi. Dir. Ceyda Torun. 2016.

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me, who hasn’t been able to recognize anyone on my dash for years: