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The last time I tried it I had to put in the SN of the device I wanted to repair in advance to get the part. Maybe they fixed it from then, have not checked.

If you cannot get parts in stock (meaning in advance), you might as well send it to the Apple and not bother with repair shop at all. I also think this is the main reason for making it like that. Display, battery and vibration motor has absolutely no security implications.

I would be very happy to see Apple not screwing with individual repair shops. Don't get me wrong, I'm a huge fan of their HW (be it iPhones or MBPs). But I'm not a fanboy and I'm not going to bend backwards to praise this corporate entity when it is not deserved. If you compare the ease of getting part for Samsung and Apple, it is like night and day.

That System Configuration step is also a middle finger. Having to chat with some support agent just for changing a consumable item like a battery? Or a vibration motor? What the actual f?

edit: Checked and they still want the SN of a target device before selling you anything - even a battery! From the site: The serial number is required and will be shared with Apple. This number must be from the device that is being repaired or you may encounter issues that prevent the completion of the repair.

Yeah, thanks but no thanks.

I'm not moving goalposts at all. All I'd want is a way to get most of the parts from OEM & be able to install them. At the very least I'd expect to be able to swap: 1) Battery (consumable) 2) Front (LCD) 3) Back (either just the glass or the whole frame)

But we have to be honest with ourselves here: what good is it to have a repair manual when you cannot buy genuine parts? I mean yeah, this is a small-ish win, but it will not help to say it is "good enough". Sorry, but that is just not good enough.

The thing that pisses me the most is that I genuinely think that iPhones are amazing phones. They are quite nicely engineered and they easily could last you 5-8 years. Why put so much engineering effort to artificially cripple the device? Most of us will buy the new model anyway. And those who cannot (or don't want) should be able to keep theirs for as long as possible. It seems wastefull and unnecessary to fight it.

Last time I checked it was not like that - those kits are actually quite easy to use.

The catch is that in order to buy it, you need to give them SN of the device in advance. Meaning you cannot have stock and thus you cannot offer any reasonably fast repair service. And even after that you have to contact their support in order to "pair" the newly installed parts to that device.

Most of the people I know use 3rd party repair shop because they can change battery/screen in 1-2 hours and they will not wipe your data. Apple takes 2 weeks and wipes your phone.

Exactly and this is why Apple pairs the front part (and various other parts) to the motherboard. To make it easier or something. Got it

I dunno, this article reads... strange.

I mean yeah, it is nice to be able to open it from front and rear. But what good does it make when they pair every single component to the motherboard? Yeah, technically parts are more accessible (physically) but thats only the beginning of the repair process. And unless you can buy genuine parts without hassle and put them in, you are still SOL.

To me it is like cheering that murderer did not also litter I mean I guess it is kinda nice of him, but...

They are still gluing it however they use "pull tab" strips. Although they are somethimes PITA to remove, they are not the worst thing.

If you tear one off you can usually use a little bit of IPA to loosen it.

How does disabling TrueTone/autobrightness help your security? Or vibration motor? Or battery? Or rear facing camera?

I can answer for you: these are completely unrelated to security. It is just a middle finger from Apple to anyone wanting to repair their device.

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I have also tried to contact support and it was painful.

At first you get an automated response from some bot which is unhelpfull. After some more diggin and poking around you get to a human but they just told me that they don't know details about flagging and cannot do anything in regards to these processes. So basically useless.

I really don't understand why it got so popular

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Well technically you are correct but the underlying issue is Discord and unability of their tech support to change anything in regards to these blacklistings/flaggings.

It is infuriating and I don't see why these services would need my phone number.

I have the very same problem. It seems that my IP @ home was somehow flagged and I was unable to access Discord without giving them phone number.

I will never give my phone to Discord/Twitter etc - just a matter of principle.

I will, for sure, switch to FF the second uBlock stops working in Chrome/Chromium.

I switched from the Safari on MacOS for just the same reason even though I lost things like ApplePay etc.

I am not giving up on uBlock. The web is too bloated and unusable for me without it.

I'd also donate if I could be sure that the money would go to the (online) privacy.

I honestly don't give a damn about abortions in the US and I don't care about any local policital movement, that is cool for the season.

I went from MacOS to Linux recently so I was going through similar projects and there is one important caveat: You have to have WIFI adapter that supports special mode (active monitor mode with frame injection).

Without compatible wifi adapter this will not work unfortunately :-(

I see exactly the same as you - located in EU.

What do you use as Dialer/SMS/Contact app?

I tried to switch myself from iPhone and almost everything was OK but these were the worst to get right... I ended up using suite from Tibor Kaputa (Simple Dialer etc) but I ran into some rather annoying issues.

Also, do you use phone recoding? This was actually my breaking point, because i have an iPhone w/ jailbreak that enables me to record phone conversations (for my use only, not trying to get into the legal discussion). I did not find anything for GrapheneOS (or Android in general) - just some info that I need to root my phone to get this working and with that I just reverted to my jailbroken iPhone.

How does "I hope you at least pay for these apps" adds anything even remotely relevant to the thread about what apps someone uses as part of their de-googled phone?

Yeah, developers do need to eat, but this (IMO) snarky comment is hardly relevant to the OP.

> A lane is composed of 2 wires: one for inbound communications and one, which has double the traffic bandwidth, for outbound.

I might be wrong, but I believe PCIe lanes are differential. Meaning you have to have 2 pairs of wires (1 for each direction), not 1 totaling 4 physical wires per lane.

Also both pairs in the lane should have the same bandwidth but since they are "full duplex" system, you might say it doubles the overall bandwidth of the lane but it does not mean that one of them is twice as fast.

Spoiler: It did indeed crash :-)

I, for one, would like to see normal package upgrade process - atleast for debian-based distros.

I really don't like the current way of "copy old directory somewehere, copy a new one and replace some files from the old one". That is very painfull and this process does not really invoke a lot of confidence.

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The thing with the FF was it did not support U2F tokens in Linux correctly when I tried it few months ago. U2F requires some "U2F addon" that is incompatible with Quantum.

This is a no-go for me as I have numerous websites secured with Yubikey and without this the browser is just "YT/Facebook viewer"...

As soon as this changes, I might give it another chance.

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EDIT: Oh, FFS I just tried to look it up again and found property "security.webauth.u2f" which seems to be false by default. After enabling it U2F works! Geez, why would you disable that id default -_-