Comments by "Keri Szafir" (@KeritechElectronics) on "Louis Rossmann"
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Thank you soooooooooo fuckin' much for this video! That's just so true. I'm in the repair thing too, mainly audio stuff and vintage restorations as this is what I specialize in, but an occassional laptop or phone also happens. And I fully agree about the complexity and precision, all the equipment needed to even get started fixing modern electronics. Can't even imagine doing a component-level repair on modern SMT devices without a microscope, precise soldering irons, all that stuff, and it's expensive as hell and not often found at hackerspaces (the idea I totally endorse, it's a great way to get started or access some more advanced technologies you can't afford, don't have room for or won't use all that much).
Plus access to information and fast changing technology do their thing too. Way back when a single model - one of not that many - was manufactured for a few years, maybe even decades. There were literal fuckin' BOOKS with schematics and descriptions of radios, TVs, audio gear etc. Even without schematics available, someone could reverse-engineer it and share the info with the local tinkerer or professional community, and it served them well as long as the unit was around and there was a need to fix it. Now? Each year a new model, out of production after a year or two. Complex as fuck, and all documentation is locked down tighter than Ethel Granger's laces. We just have to rely on certain design patterns to get the idea what could go wrong.
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Fuckin' unhinged. When are those companies gonna learn... Repeat after me, corporations: When someone buys your product, it's THEIRS, not yours. They decide what to do with it and where to take it when it breaks down. Stop trying to barge in and make that decision for themselves in a most fucked up way possible, by silencing the people who fix the gear and show others how to do it.
And it's been demonstrated time and time again that Youtube is way too uncritical about the claims they get. Claim comes in, it's automatically acted upon, not even reviewed by a living human being, let alone one who, unlike me, knows the ins and outs of DMCA and copyright law.
Regarding PCB layouts, are they protected if they're not reproducible? I mean, if someone reverse-engineers the board and posts the results verbatim as gerber files or a design in some EDA software, it's a clear case. When someone draws a rough sketch of the traces on some part of the board but not even the intricate details of the layout (power / GND / internal signal planes, trace distances for controlled impedance, lengths for delay matching etc.), I wouldn't even consider it reproducible enough to violate copyright or patent laws.
Mend It Mark is dang good at his work, well worth checking out!
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Internet of shit, everything-as-a-service, and planned obsolescence after a few years. Where the fuck is our world, society and civilization headed? Seeing this I really don't want humanity to expand to other planets. We really need to learn to clean up our own mess before we go anywhere else!
By the way, now that you mentioned water heaters and temperature controls... that's precisely why I installed a home automation system on a LOCAL instance, self-hosted on a Raspberry Pi with a small UPS in case of a power outage. Plus I design my systems so that even when the connection / server is down, you still have a possibility of controlling them locally. Maybe I'm paranoid about the internet of shit thing, having observed the thing for like 10 years, but I strongly believe that it's us owners who must be in charge of our gear. In order for that to happen, we must know how the things work and how to troubleshoot them... which is becoming harder and harder these days, and that's why I fully support the right to repair.
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