[phil21]

And now we're into John Deere levels of "fuck you, pay me" whenever anything breaks.

No thanks. The secondary repair market is extremely important to keep on life support.

If you cede all repair work to manufacturer blessed shops the amount of waste and expense skyrockets.

I want patched together laptops working 12 years from now, just like I have old T-series laptops from back in the day with various replacement parts humming away right now in my homelab. It's silly to just toss everything in the trash the moment is breaks.

[Gigachad]

That secondary market is made up almost purely of stolen phones.