For 90% of the parts it’s honestly pretty easy to work with. You just need a few screwdrivers. And I sourced all my parts from eBay.

The documentation is excellent:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/100586

The only thing that’s egregious is the batteries. They tape the batteries to the case, and to remove them you have to do this complex twirling motion with tweezers to pull the tape out from under the battery. If the tape snaps during this then the documentation basically says get a new case.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49330742

Each time it’s some different outlet - but when you dig in, the piece is just verbal framing around the original story written by 404 media:

https://archive.is/9MQrK

What’s even more stunning is that the original article doesn’t provide evidence that “rare” books are being destroyed. That doesn’t even appear in the original article title.

https://direct.playstation.com/en-us/buy-accessories/disc-dr...

They actually did a good job giving the consumer choices - it’s just customers didn’t choose physical media.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...

Last quarter 85% of all game sales were digital.

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/sony-just-reported-a-new-r...

This is actually just the first step - to propose an amendment.

To ratify it requires 3/4 of the state legislatures (or state “conventions”) to vote in favor.

https://www.archives.gov/federal-register/constitution

Because a demographic crisis is a real problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_Japan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aging_of_South_Korea

Because there are 3 solutions to this problem:

1. Improve Technology so that a smaller working age cohort can support a larger elderly cohort

2. Increase the birth rate, which no developed country has managed to sustain

3. Increase migration

1 and 2 are theoretical - no has proved that this can work.

It’s perfectly fine for the Swedes to decide that 3) is not for them.

We’re on a discussion board - Why wouldn’t I be able to comment on a country’s policies?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/25/sweden-pm-ivf-...

Or like the other commenter said, Apple TV is what I use.

When I submitted an AppleCare replacement request for it, the employee said “Oh man, I hate it when that happens!” and approved it.

I figure that’s the script, or maybe he had a chronic issue of running over his own phone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qualified_dividend

> Game consoles that are supported include the original Xbox, Xbox 360, GameCube, Wii, and Dreamcast. Physical media from other consoles, such as PlayStation 3, 4, 5, and the Xbox One/Series consoles, technically work, but the content on physical media for these consoles is encrypted.

Breaking encryption is definitely “illegal” - but backing up a binary format is not. I can backup my GBA cartridges ROMs for personal archival use if I have a device that can read them.

https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden/discussions/1549#...

The upstream also had this issue, which appeared to be closed without a PR:

https://github.com/bitwarden/server/issues/3650

Regardless, maybe there’s a path to legislation forbidding smartphone requirements for huge monopoly businesses like national professional sports leagues. I’d hate for ownership of a consumer device to become codified as a requirement for participation in activities like this.

The guy might not be sufficiently disabled to qualify - but for example if you have a blind person without a smartphone, you can’t tell them they’re out of luck - because you can clearly reasonably accommodate them without causing “undue financial hardship” by giving them tickets at will-call.

According to what? Laws can be whatever a country says, so long as they have the mechanism to enforce it.

See: the US using special forces to kidnap Maduro

In a source posted by another commenter, their wages are accountable for 5% of the difference.

I also don’t think it’s accurate to say regulations are what’s prohibiting an increase in nurses. They don’t have a government imposed mechanism like residency funding that creates a bottleneck like the one in medical training.

We have a nurse shortage because we have an aging population increasing demand, it’s a tough job, and people are leaving the profession.

> However, new research by Stanford health economist Maria Polyakova and colleagues — using unique data on physician income — shows that physicians’ personal earnings account for only 8.6 percent of national health-care spending

https://siepr.stanford.edu/news/just-how-much-do-physicians-...