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DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks (www.404media.co)
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DIY tinkerer invents MacBook tool that breaks Apple’s repair locks::“To whoever it is at Apple who decided to not make this available to technicians, ‘Fuck you, we win.’”

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[–] kautau@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

A fine is just an calculable price to do something wrong, businesses love them, from the classic study:

https://rady.ucsd.edu/_files/faculty-research/uri-gneezy/fine.pdf

Parents used to arrive late to collect their children, forcing a teacher to stay after closing time. We introduced a monetary fine for late-coming parents. As a result, the number of late-coming parents increased significantly.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just keep adding zeroes until you get the desired outcome.

[–] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is the correct answer. If the fine was $1000 for every time you picked your kid up late you can guarantee parents would never arrive late. Same goes for businesses. The fine just needs to be in the hundreds of millions to billions. They’d change their tune.