Regarding the "Partial" claim: https://twitter.com/JanR210/status/1572498112840695809
Aeroflot stopped selling air tickets to all Russian men aged 18-65 who don’t have authorization from the military office (voenkomat).
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Aeroflot stopped selling air tickets to all Russian men aged 18-65 who don’t have authorization from the military office (voenkomat).
WW3 does not necessarily mean nukes at all. I personally think - based on how Russian generals used the military funding to enrich themselves - that most of the Russian nukes are not operational. They might have some low-yield "tactical" nukes (something like nuclear grenades). And I seriously doubt that US would use theirs since as soon as you use nukes, everyone will and after that there is no winner anymore.
I was wondering about that for a while now :-D Not to actually google yet it but still :-)
China is a question but I'd say that noone is benefiting from WW3 apart from perhaps military industry. So I don't really believe China will be too happy because they have a lot going on internally and they don't really need aditional problems that RUS will inevitably cause them.
But as I said: I really hope that time will prove me wrong.
But the prospect of full blown WW3 is now much more real than it was a month ago, that's for sure.
Wow... That's actually quite terrifying how fast these things can go south.
In a rare pre-recorded televised announcement, Putin said the West "wants to destroy our country" and claimed the West had tried to "turn Ukraine's people into cannon fodder," in comments translated by Reuters, repeating earlier claims in which he has blamed Western nations for starting a proxy war with Russia.
Putin said "mobilization events" would begin Wednesday without providing further details, aside from saying that he had ordered an increase in funding to boost Russia's weapons production, having committed (and lost) a large amount of weaponry during the conflict, which began in late February.
Your offer is that I should disclose information about my whereabouts so you can do nothing to help me. Well thank you for this opportunity but I think I will politely decline. :-D
As I said earlier: If you cannot help me at all, I have no interest in proving anything to you. Sorry.
If you want a Ferrari, go buy one. They have quite long waiting lists from what I've heard.
edit: In order not to be completely off topic: Apple might have just the same problems with parts stolen from their suppliers but since every single iPhone needs to be activated, I'm very sure they would be able to catch "iPhones made entirely from stolen parts". So this is clearly not it. The fact that they don't sell anything will probably make this whole thing quite worse because if you could buy a genuine display for 250$ from Apple, why would you really buy from anyone else? That market would of course exist but it would be much much smaller.
I would not expect them to sell motherboards or for exampe face id sensors without some kind of pairing. But batteries and LCDs? Come on!
They are doing it just to stick it to anyone who wants to repair their device. Quite sad when you think about the origins of that company :-(
By your own indirect admission you cannot change anything so why bother? I don't really care if you personally believe me or not. Sorry.
Are you an actual Apple employee with some power to help me (or help the situation in general)? If so I'd be really glad and more than willing to share all my information with you! Let me know. We buy Apple products worth roughly ~$10-30k every year depending on the stuff we are getting so I'm afraid that we are not that big to be interesting by ourselves but we are certainly bigger than 3 iPhones a year :-)
I'd be the first person to actually celebrate having some official way to either repair my stuff or at the very least a way to get genuine parts without having to jump through multiple artificial hoops designed just to piss me off.
Apple does somewhat care about users privacy (I like that very much) but this is really not it. And it goes for the battery as well. And vibration motor. And rear facing camera. All these are just plain and simple middle finger to third party repair shops. You could argue about FaceID sensor and motherboard and I would agree with security concerns, but that's pretty much it.
Why would it be any different for Apple?
Battery will lock out "battery health".
Rear facing camera will glitch out (I think it will not do video and it will reduce framerate dramatically) and front camera will not work correctly at all.
All accompanied with constant nagging about non-genuine parts - regardless if you use parts from another iPhone (100% genuine).
I really have a strong feeling that some folks have Stockholm syndrome or something.
The thing is that even if you screw this up, it will probably look OK for quite some time without being really water tight.
This also applies not only to the battery replacement but for screen as well. I've had to do that also and it also was not a 30 minute repair unfortunately. If it was, I would be quite happy and would not be so frustrated over this stuff.
Honestly, if they cared about "best user experience", they would have done digital signature of the LCD/cable and if OEM was detected, they could display something like "Hey, someone tampered with your phone and changed the screen using OEM parts". If not, they coud say "Hey, someone tampered with your phone and replaced screen with an unoriginal one. You might see some degradation in quality because of that".
But normally (and if done correctly) it is watertight and opens +- the same.
Because that idea is BS, designed just to block 3rd party repair shops from doing quick repairs leaving you with the same (or worse) level of service that Apple itself offers.
Why on Earth would anyone need to provide SN of the phone to buy consumable such as battery? Makes no sense at all. Even the display is stupid because most of the time people come to the repair shop is because Apple takes 2 weeks & wipes data from device. Which is kinda problem for many people since they often don't have another $$$ for spare phone and also forgot to backup.
Almost any other vendor lets you buy parts such as LCD or battery and just swap it. And for most of the phones you can do that kind of work in under an hour.
Yeah, IPA and thin plastic shim card. These are often sold in lockpicking shops for door shimming - costs few bucks. Or directly from iFixit site (/products/plastic-cards). Just snip it in half so it is not as wide (careful not to leave sharp corner that coud tear up that battery!). Then slip it under the battery and use it to guide few drops of IPA under there. Worked for me every time with almost no hassle.
Just be careful because IPA is of course flammable. If you would puncture the battery or make it spark, you could end up having quite a bad day. But that probably applies for the monofilament-under-the-battery approach too.
And even if you did rip those tabs IPA does much better job of un-adhering the battery as you really don't want to use excessive force on lithium pouch cells unless you like your repair job to get "fast & furious" :-)
Reasonably priced repair - unless they found some random part glued to the backside that they paired to the motherboard for "security reasons" :-D
The basic process of opening/closing any moder phone is basically the same.
Adhering the battery is the same - just press in place.
Heat is only needed for opening/closing the phone.
Please read the thread (shrug emoji).
Of course I wiped it beforehand - they told me that they will have to send it somewhere and it would get wiped regardless.
I guess it depends on where you are (Central Europe for me)