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[โ€“] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (3 children)

To quote the youtuber, rights for repair activist and repair shop owner Salem Techspert: "You aren't working with Computers. You are working with people"

The computers aren't the problem, but the assholes using them.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is something else to have to explain to seasoned techs that if they aren't parsing the issue as a people problem or a technical problem right off the bat, they are going to end up wasting a lot of time. Like how did you not come to this a long time ago? You can't fix people problems.

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