Last year, Apple outraged independent technicians when they updated the
Iphone design to prevent third party repair, adding a “feature” that
allowed handsets to detect when their screens had been swapped (even
when they’d been swapped for an original, Apple-manufactured screen) and
refuse to function until they got an official Apple unlock code.
Now, this system has come to the MacBook Pros and Imac Pros, thanks to
the “T2 security chip” which will render systems nonfunctional after
replacing the keyboard, screen, case, or other components, until the a
proprietary Apple “configuration tool” is used to unlock the system.
Apple does not tell its customers that the computers it sells are
designed to punish them for opting to get their property repaired by
independent technicians; the details of the T2 came from a leaked
service manual.
and this is why i won’t touch macs with a ten foot cattle prod
son of a fucking bitch goddamn it. i don’t want to keep buying from this kind of corporation, but microsoft enrages me to the point of throwing the machine at the wall at least once per hour, so i’m not sure i have a choice. it’s all fine and good for seebs to treat linux like a real alternative but i want apps and graphics software and stuff.
guess i’ll just keep using this 2015 macbook for another three years. or six. or ten.
it appears this one is Not Yet Implemented – it doesn’t actually brick them, it’s just the service manual saying it can or might or something, and people have done some experiments and not hit that yet.
so if we make enough noise they might come to their senses? because i really won’t buy a machine that does that, but i am also much too high-strung to deal with microsoft machines that think they’re the boss of me and they get to tell me what i’m allowed to do when instead of the other way around.
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