Right to repair... ventilators?

By mlumadue on April 14, 2020

I've always waffled about my feeling on Apple products. My first computer was a Mac Plus, and I loved the platform up to OS 8. I cam back to it with OS 10 when Steve Jobs retook the company, and stuck with it until the trashcan Mac Pro, at which point the writing was on the wall (basically, Steve Jobs was dead).

But I still have an interest the platform, as well as electronics I don't really understand, so I started following Apple repair business owner and bicycle urban stuntman Louis Rossmann. Not only is he THE GUY you use for out of warranty Apple repair, but he is also a leader in the right to repair movement (he has serious skin in the game). I knew that companies like John Deere had been playing games to brick their devices when "unauthorized repairs" take place (just like Apple), but medical devices...?!?

Meanwhile that huge stockpile of masks in California was only discovered to be fraudulent because the Federal Government was trying to steal them from the state?

Investigators stumbled onto the scheme while looking into whether they could intercept the masks for the Federal Emergency Management Agency under the Defense Production Act, the U.S. attorney’s office said Friday.

I... uha...

no words