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that funny feeling

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That’s Louis Rossman, a repair technician and YouTuber, who went viral recently for railing against Apple. Apple purposely charges a lot for repairs and you either have to pay up or buy a new device. That’s because Apple withholds necessary tools and information from outside repair shops. And to think, we were just so close to change.

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Reblog if you:

Have an iPhone and are in need of repairs

Have a friend with that problem

Hate Apple and are more than happy to spite them in some way

No one will know which is it

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This guy inspired me to repair my own macbook. First of all, you should know that I am not… like, I have to look up HOW to look up what my computer specifications are. Tech, that ware either soft or hard, is not a subject in which I experience comfort or competence. But my puppy peed on my keyboard, and I asked the apple store, or the fucking mac cafe, or the godsdamn Computer House Chill Zone or whatever cute ass name they have for their bullshit store, and they said it would be TWELVE HUNDRED DOLLARS TO REPLACE MY KEYBOARD. I’m not even exaggerating.

So I asked the internet, well how hard IS it to repair? And I saw this guy’s video, and while I am no techie, I AM fueled by spite, so I was all “oh, they do that shit on purpose specifically so they can charge me $1200 bucks or make me buy a new computer hunh? FUCK THEM” and I bought all the tools I needed for about $25 and I bought all the parts I needed for about another $25 and I watched a few tutorial videos, and I replaced my own keyboard.

So, once you are doing the actual deed, it becomes pretty obvious that they are finding creative ways to make this much harder than it has to be on purpose. On thing that stood out to me is, instead of all the tiny screws being the same size, there are about two dozen very slightly different sizes. They could easily be all the same size, or like, two sizes at most, but no.

These mother fuckers will take a panel that screws into place and they’ll use a different size screw for each corner. They are so close that you almost cannot tell them apart visually, but they each will only screw into the matching corner. Like, it’s a pretty clear “fuck you” to anyone trying to do repairs.

anyway, this guy is also fueled by spite, and doing holy work, and I have mad respect

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This is awesome. Man is doing good ass deeds 24/7 because he’s giving people control.

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How dare you not leave a link to his channel, this guy is the savior of the modern world.

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vittoria alla ribellione

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things i needed to hear (as conversation hearts)

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Hey did you know I keep a google drive folder with linguistics and language books that I try to update regularly

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**UPDATE**

I have restructured the folders to make them easier to use and managed to add almost all languages requested and then some

Please let me know any further suggestions

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….holy shit. You found the holy grail.

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….. is this a DIFFERENT person keeping gigabytes worth of language books on google drive? Holy crap.

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This. This here. Is why I love Tumblr.❤️❤️❤️

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Nogal wild om ineens De Ideale Wereld op je dash tegen te komen

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m dying this is great

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#Content #it's funny because it's true

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Apropos of a really stupid bunch of people on twitter I mean nothing speaking as a librarian every time I do a big whack of weeding I reflect happily on how many book fetishists would be pissing their pants.

This is why I’m not allowed on twitter.*

(*note: I am the one who has made this rule for myself.)

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Like you have to understand: books are just things. They are objects. They are a very effective way to contain information, whether that information is a description of history, a poem, instructions on how to change a tire, or an epic work of fiction, but they’re just objects.

Some of them are very lovely objects, and deserve preservation because they are lovely works of craft in their binding or their creation; some of them are precious to an individual person, and so deserve preservation the same way a beloved stuffed animal, or carving, or jacket, or other object that has personal meaning imbued in it, deserves preservation. Some of them are the only repository of their information, or are a single historically significant repository, and so are valuable as historical artifacts. But none of that is because “they’re books”. Like every other object in human existence, they are valuable or not valuable based on their context and history or lack thereof.

But a book is just a convenient way of assembling information, in one way or the other.

When Nazis burned books it was not bad Because The Objects Were Sacred. It was bad because they did it to destroy knowledge forever. They did it to erase knowledge and information and words from the world. At that time and in that place, burning the physical copies was a very efficient way of doing that because the technology and dissemination of most of them was such that destroying these collections would make that information unavailable within their borders, or anywhere they controlled.

It would in fact destroy that knowledge.

When you chuck an old romance novel in the recycling - or even use it as kindling! - it does not actually destroy any knowledge. When someone carves out an old copy of a book to use for an art project, it does not destroy any knowledge. They’re just things; they have served their purpose. Hoarding impulses aren’t any less pathological just because the object you can’t bring yourself to chuck is a book, instead of an item of clothing or a broken vacuum.

If you want to keep things, go ahead! You are the decider of what is valuable to you. But there is no moral or ethical value in being horrified that objects that have served their purpose are being disposed of, however that disposal happens; the information, the knowledge, continues, and that is what has value.

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As a fellow librarian, I just want to add the following rebuttal to various objections to throwing books out:

“Why can’t you host a book sale instead of just tossing them?” We already did and no one wanted them. Or we don’t have the staff or the time to host one without sacrificing something else that we’re doing for patrons.

“Why can’t you give them away to people who might need them?” If you understand why donating expired food or clothing with stains is not actually helping people in need, you should be able to figure out this one.

“You should recycle them instead of just sending them to the landfill!” A lot of books, especially books with library binding, can’t be recycled. Or they can be, but it costs a lot of money, which we don’t have.

“But surely it’s better to hold onto books if they’re still in okay condition!” Not necessarily! When we weed books, we now have the space for new books. Maybe we can get a new copy of a classic with better notes, making it more accessible to people. Maybe that book we just threw out had outdated information (we had to replace all of our solar system books, for example). Maybe the needs or interests of the community changed, and we can buy materials better suited to them. When we removed old reference material that was outdated and not being used by patrons, we had room to add new things, like musical instruments, board games, and sewing machines!

Weeding isn’t about depriving people of library resources, it’s making sure that the library can offer the best resources possible.

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Yesss. Gross falling apart books are, well. Gross and falling apart.

And also like, look: when the newest James Patterson book comes out, to serve our community we need to buy roughly four copies. In fact we have a system set up where a certain number of Holds on a title automatically triggers a new purchase of the title because otherwise the hold list lasts for like a year before our patrons get to actually read that book. At which point there is probably another new James Patterson book out.

Two years later, we really, really do not need four copies of the same James Patterson book. MAYBE some of them will be sold! (And trust me we as a public library DO have book sales and they’re quite important as revenue.) But not always. Because actually by two years on everyone who wants to read that James Patterson book has probably read it. So yes. Some James Patterson is definitely going in the bin. Because every other public library also has this problem which means that the market is, I promise, flooded with James Patterson books. XP

And this goes triple for books that actually do have time-sensitive information. In my previous job I was in an academic library where the Head Librarian was tragically and painfully allergic to weeding. One of the major programs for that (small) college was practical nursing.

Let me be super clear: useful books in practical nursing have a lifespan of about five to ten years. That’s how fast the information changes, how often regulations change, these days how often drug information and best practices can change. It is a very fast-moving field and it should be. But that means other than maybe one or two copies for an archive that focuses on the history of practical nursing, fifteen year old practical nursing books are … .

Well. They’re garbage. Nobody wants them. And the fact that our shelves were cluttered with sub-optimal books in this area actually made it harder for our students to use, and discouraged them from trying to find helpful books in the library, because they’d have to hunt around for publication dates or hunt thru to find reliable books - and feel no assurance they were there.

Conversely in the Literary Arts section in my current library, there’s less turnover because, well. The text of Pride and Prejudice is pretty much the same as it has been for quite some time, and that copy doesn’t get worn out. So.

Choices are made in libraries to serve the stated purpose of that library, whether it’s to provide valuable access to information to a community, or to support students, or even support lawyers or healthcare workers or IT people in a large company. But none of them are actually designed or intended or useful to anyone as Giant Book Tombs Where Every Volume Ever Is Left To Disintegrate To Dust On The Shelf Due To Sentimental Object Reverence.

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