sramder @ sramder @lemmy.world

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Like they fixed cookies?

Meh… I like it random. Although if chainsaw juggler is an acceptable substitute :-)

Seriously! I was just thinking this was the most Florida headline I had heard this year.

I definitely need better friends… I’m paying a little over 900 bucks for that much primo shit here in CA… and that’s with my good customer discount 😂

I was actually thinking about OBD2 when I wrote that. The old CRT pedestal style code readers cost as much as a new car, fairly reasonable from an automakers perspective but expensive enough to put plenty of small shops out of business.

It was one of the first big top-down push that I remember. It’s a pretty good parallel for the current right to repair legislation. The automakers fought it tooth and nail back then too. They made similar claims about their new cars being so complex that they simply had to be serviced at the dealerships. And, to your point, they are still getting away with it to a degree.

Our Supreme Court where graft is rampant… blatantly biased courts at every level. It’s not looking great.

Seems oddly difficult. The state bar can’t do it unilaterally which is weird, they pass it to the State Supreme Court… and he can still appeal that somehow.

Even better. I thought we were just talking about the cost to provide the repair information, which should be free after so many years of shenanigans.

Good points about parts cost/availability. Hopefully ORs bill keeps costs down with the threat of competition.

I’m waiting for Apple to announce they are pulling out of Oregon 😂 [^1]

[^1]: Also the impending injunction 😒

It sounds good, but that’s enough wiggle room to drive a truck full of money through. Even “at cost” has been abused pretty badly.

No idea about OCLP unfortunately. But I got a battery for my mid 2015 macbook off Amazon. Changing it isn’t hard but you’ll need a funky 5 lobed screwdriver. The 2015 and I assume onward memory is soldered to the board, so you’re probably stuck, although an independent repair shop could probably swap boards or something. The keyboard is integrated into the top plate according to apple, it was over $200 for the part last time I checked on eBay.

And don’t even get me started on the SSD :-( They are kind of a pain in the dick… but so sexy inside.

One of my friends mentioned he was downloading pre-patched MacOSs from the internet archive, so that might be worth a look.

Good luck.

They do actually mention a reduction in all cause mortality which seems pretty wild.

I just go around pinning these to random cash registers like kick-me signs.

Granny Goes Hard

I could play almost any modern title with my PC and I’ve tried. I tried remakes of the games I used to like, I’ve tried modern takes on retro games… and I’ve come to accept that what I love are button-mashers :-)

I will play Metal Slug for hours. Any of the overhead shooters from Battle of Midway or almost any of the SciFi side scrolling shooters.

So my advice is try something different. Dig around in old coin-op titles, there are literally thousands and you can download all of them in one torrent.

Skip the AAA+ titles and play something dumb :-)

The point was transparency, don’t try to distract from the issue.

I’m delighted. I wonder if they still employ one lone engineer with the title “WAP Architect” :-)

Wet Ass Pussy is clearly the answer.

Reminds me of a prank that a physics professor pulled on us. He put the trinitie sample in a large/elaborate Giger counter and then slyly kicked it into test mode while recounting what Trinitite was. “Oh… wait, that’s not supposed to be radioactive…”

Yes! A fixture in our garage for like 35+ years :-)