Dropping in my 2 cents, read at your own risk
@larossmann There's always going to be people who shit on you, for good reasons, bad reasons, no reasons at all. People who hate you for your sex, your success, your skin color, the language you speak. Fuck em. Keep an open ear for actually valid and justified feedback, but the rest should not concern you.
Think of it this way, if you are not controlling your thoughts and mood, it means that someone else is.
Regarding your legacy, and the lack thereof that you perceive, I believe that you got your heart in the right place, and that you have a great work ethic, but when it comes to right to repair, from what I have seen in the news, in reports, and what you have said on your channel about your work, I am convinced that you are attacking a symptom rather than a cause. It is super hard to fix a problem with this approach.
Forgive me for talking economics and philosophy, but, ultimately, what external incentive is there to make a high quality, well-priced, good customer service business?
Yes, such businesses are, all things being equal, the best way for sustainable long-term growth and success.
But what incentive is there for long-term growth?
Every day, some niggerfaggot politician can just decide to make your business illegal. To make your currency worthless. To introduce regulations that make your business unviable. Or simply use some of the money they stole from you to directly hand it on a silver platter to your better-lobbying competitors, called "subsidies".
A lack of a "right to repair", or even property rights on the things you buy, or, hell, ANY AND ALL property rights in the first place, is a natural and predictable consequence of the state existing. As long as the state exists, it will need to create the appearance that it is necessary for society to function. Accordingly, state intervention in and regulation of economic matters is extremely likely to happen as long as a state exists. This means that it is no longer exclusively voluntarily paying customers who decide on success and failure, but, pardon my French, the most successful gangster group in a territory picking winners and losers. With this legal and regulatory uncertainty, long-term strategies become inherently less attractive relative to short-term strategies. And you see that all over the place, not just in repair.
Film studios and game publishers buying IP (itself a complete government-enforced fiction) and shitting out the stinkiest turds because, hey, we want to make some cash now, who knows what crazy bullshit the government comes up with tomorrow, screw the future, screw the legacy, screw the reputational damage and loss of customer trust. Hardware companies being in bed with government intelligence agencies and abusing systems to preserve their formerly earned market share.
People always respond to incentives, and, as shitty as it sounds, as long as the state exists, these issues will come sooner or later. Some "right to repair bill" will have exceptions or unequal enforcement or a plainly ridiculous lack of consequences, and there is nothing you can do about it but to work towards a freer society.
The good news is that systems that are doomed to fail will always end up failing. The bad news is that it's not going to be pretty. But you can stay optimistic in the long term.
), tends to be hands-off with banning people or deleting posts that don't break the simple rules. That's why in the Apple subreddit you'll find nothing but bootlickers for the brand. But here you can find people both for and against the topic discussed in the thread. Hell, I can have good civil discussions on videogames with a schizophrenic or political extremist here than I can with "normal" people on other social media.
Oh Louis... Good luck on your love quest. 