this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2025
567 points (97.3% liked)

Technology

77035 readers
1898 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.


Our Rules


  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots


founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Halfway through he describes this as malicious compliance with the "right to repair" law. Apple and others are making a mockery of the law.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] artyom@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

you can also take off the motor and turn the mechanism yourself, that's how all backyard mechanic does it for every car with EPB

I'm a mechanic and no, you cannot do that

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip -5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

What's the odd, i'm a mechanic too, and yes you can, you just don't know about it.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dunno what that link is but no, you can't. There's no way to turn them.

[–] psx_crab@lemmy.zip -3 points 2 days ago

You're just a very bad mechanic ehh, unwilling to learn, and unwilling to compromise.