macOS 11 Puente Hills
in plain english:
zero parts inside every new Mac being sold in 2020 (with exception for that inaccessibly spendy Mac Pro whichāll be even more scarce than pre-Trash Can Mac Pros) is replaceable, even by a repair shop, now that components are burnt-in-serial-mated to one another, making the Mac an instantly disposable appliance
just like the iPhone
enjoy your walled landfill!
@kode54 *repairing* hardware (i havenāt brought up ābuildingā) is only a āāālost artāāā if you donāt know how to do it yourself or arenāt willing to take your equipment to a repair shop
to engineer a computer to be completely non-repairable (ānot modularā) is a conscious corporate strategy of flouting reusability, accessibility, and agency of personal ownership
it also jacks up waste streams, and it boosts the output of disposed equipment which will never be retrieved, recycled, and/or reused for new uses ā instead ending up in a land impoverished previously by acts of colonialism, seeping into air, land, & water systems affecting all life negatively
thereās no way this closed-ecosystem/non-repairability model may be maintained over time w/o penalty, as tougher regulations around equipment life cycles are enforced in the tech industry
āright-to-repairā isnāt part of a ālost artā unless youāre down for that and youāre capitulating to a prevention of anti-trust action against, say, a tech entity like Apple
@theyepman @kode54 a truly repairable phone is the ability for a repair shop or someone cosy with parts disassembly to source replacement parts (battery, OLED display, glass, USB port, power/control button, etc.) and to be able to replace faulty components, even if that requires some soldering (such as a USB port to logic board)
[the Fairphone is a truly modular design in the truest sense, in which anyone can replace/upgrade components without having to take it to a repair shop]
for a company (like Apple) to actively prohibit vendors from supplying replacement parts to anyone whatsoever *except* Apple is anti-competitive, anti-right-to-repair, and in the end compels users to spend unnecessarily on whole new devices instead of seeking to have fixed only the components which have failed in an existing device ā thus jacking up the waste stream
this isnāt hard and this isnāt rocket science
itās worked just fine for hardware for a very long time, even for smart phones ā even, yes, my Nextbit Robin from 2015ā16
@patience Not really down for it, just saying that over a billion people would probably just do without tech rather than learn how to use something modular and bulky. Also I have yet to see a truly repairable smart phone, and that's what most people are making do with instead of actual computers these days.