Comment on I ain't risking shit

• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Activation lock is designed to prevent reuse of stolen parts like this. Don’t know how successful this is, what components it’s tied to, and it doesn’t work on older models.

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  • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve changed out fingerprint scanners and mostly just peripherals like the speakers and jacks and things like that. The board itself is pretty much locked down with nothing you can replace other than maybe a few components like a capacitor or something and even now they’re becoming increasingly just disposable unfortunately

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    • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If you don’t contact Apple to get an official screen replacement for your phone it will automatically disable FaceID among other features.

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      • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Well that tracks with the devices becoming more and more disposable

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• ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  The key phrase here is “used to”. They’ve locked everything down in the past few years. Even the fucking battery is serialized and paired now.

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  • Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For sure, someone else linked a more recent ifixit and yeah, right to repair is just getting nonexistent. I embrace the hopeful coming of more and more hardware for Linux

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