The Little Drummer Boy

Future composer & performer, student at Capital University, Pit tech at Westerville South. Center Marimba at Inertia Independent Winds.

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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

[weaselle]

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

[dragonfox-in-a-teacup]

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

[dantes-infernal-chili]

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

[consensualanarchy]

ive watched him o youtube and i dont even own apple stu ff but its suoer interesting anyway

[dmandrums]

I've started a playlist called "Songs That Sound The Same But Aren't" as a catalogue of parts songs that share melodic similarities with other songs, after having heard a lot of songs on the radio that are overly familiar if not clearly borrowed. There's a corresponding document where I've listed each group of songs, the artist, and explained a little bit of the similarity as I hear it. This is mostly for my own personal reference because I can be pretty forgetful but I'm glad to accept new additions, just comment with the songs and I'll put them in the playlist and on the document.

Check it out on my Twitter where both links can be found:

https://twitter.com/dgmusicx/status/1205545232294694913?s=19

Daemon Gordon on Twitter

“I'm working on a playlist of songs that share similarities or borrow from other songs, it's mostly for my own reference but maybe other peo

[dmandrums]

Rian Johnson murdered SW canon without even realizing it

Ok so I was talking about the SW sequel trilogy with a coworker yesterday, and we realized that the scene where Admiral Holdo hyperspaces her ship into the First Order fleet basically just destroys all of Star Wars canon just for that scene.

Now hear me out, you should say "well nobody really would have thought of that and it was a surprise tactic", but that's where you're wrong. Hux clearly knows exactly what she's doing as she turns her ship around, instead of being like "wtf are they planning with that?" he goes into full-on panic mode. This clearly means that this is a thing that can be done, and for him to recognize it immediately he has to have some knowledge of it.

So if this is the case, why build a Death Star? Why even bother with a space battle? You could program the ship's navigational system, or have a single droid do it, and just hyperspace into the enemy every single time. Like, lose a fleet of ships vs. losing a single unmanned ship. Oh, the rebels are hiding out on Yavin 4? Hyperspace a Star Destroyer into it. They're hiding out on Hoth? Hyperspace. Then there wouldn't be a single transport that escaped.

Hell, even in the Death Star 2 battle. X-wings have on-board hyperdrive engines. They could have just hyperspaced and unmanned X-wing into the shield generator then have Ackbar send a Mon Calamari ship into the Death Star. Why bother aiming torpedoes down an exhaust shaft?? Just hyperdrive a ship into it.

Oh, there's a Trade Federation blockade over Naboo? Let's just have the Republic send over a cruiser and hyperspace into their fleet. That plotline in the Clone Wars where they're being hunted by Grevious' secret experimental weapon ship? Well shoot, as soon as we know where it is, let's just hyperspace one of the cruisers into it.

My only explanation is that the main factions we've seen must have just been made up of the dumbest jebronis out there that nobody ever once thought to use that as a strategy.

[r00]

no game has felt worth 60$ since games became 60$

[dmandrums]

Halo 3

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[dmandrums]

We asked for a functioning website, you gave us scuffed kik

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i released my album woo

[dankmemeuniversity]

[annoyingaltosaxophone]

when there’s a I6 chord and ur professor asks which solfege syllable is in the bass

[dmandrums]

It's not punk to do hard drugs anymore because you'll get thrown into the prison industrial complex, providing free labor, which is exactly what the government wants

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[dmandrums]

Working on an ASMR-type thing. I want to use Blender for the background to get experience for my current larger project but man is the learning curve tough

[tasty19384-deactivated20200201]

new ep out!!!!!

[esterix]

Real Punks Aren’t Nazis

Real Punks Aren’t Transphobic

Real Punks Aren’t Homophobic

Real Punks Aren’t Racist

Real Punks Aren’t Sexist

If you call yourself a punk but you’re a bigot, congratulations you’re just an asshole

[amellophone]

Hello my children, would you like me to create a music department discord server? I was thinking about making the roles things like

Marching Band

Concert Band

Orchestra

Choir/Chorus

And putting subcategories in there like

Mellophone

French horn

Viola

Alto

Along with whether you’re in middle school, high school, college, or none of the above (if you’re comfortable with sharing that information of course) And then subcategories of those as well. So my roles would be

Server Owner

Marching band

Concert band

Mellophone

French Horn

High School

Freshman (9th Grade)

There would also be chats for each area of the music department along with a suggestions chat if I forget a section or something

Because I don’t really know how to use discord bots, all roles would be managed by me and maybe some admins who I find and can trust with helping

Anyways reblog if you’d join so that I know if this is a good idea or not (also to get the word out to more people who don’t follow me)

If I decide to do this, dm me to join. If this post doesn’t go anywhere and you’d like to join my regular @pianolexcat server which already has a pretty large amount of music kids, dm me and I’ll send a link

That is all I have to say

[dmandrums]

When the key signature has an A flat but you’ve been playing an A natural the whole time

[dmandrums]

This got featured on the MMB Facebook so I guess I've peaked right

[dmandrums]

Just a friendly reminder- shoplifting is NOT punk.

[deathtokillian]

Some of you use punk as an excuse to be a dick, and it shows

[lestatdefender]