For the people in the comments not in the know: Rossmann is a respected voice for this sort of thing, even if this post looks like an ad. He’s not one of the bad ones (yet).
this guy is insufferable. these videos are just unnecessarily long speeches that would fit an article so much better than a video.
not to mention that his whole YouTube/Odysee channel is disguised advertisement for their businesses.
Yeah he rambles in his videos, sometimes so much I want him to just stick to the topic, and he could benefit from writing a script, but calling someone “insufferable” because of that seems pretty harsh, especially when they’ve been a massive proponent of right to repair (and even successfully had some laws changed), open source, and privacy.
This guy was offered an insane salary for doing engineering for US defense contracts and turned it down because he felt like calling out bad practices and improving repairability on our devices was a better thing to do. I can respect that. Someone putting their principles before simply making as much bank as possible.
Yeah, he has a link to his repair business in his video description and occasionally mentions he has a repair business or bullshit anti-repair stuff the repair shop has to deal with. I don’t see what’s so bad about that.
Not everyone has the time, ability, or tools to repair everything themselves at home. Repair shops are a good thing. Would you rather things just be discarded when the battery dies or the screen gets a crack?
I really liked his relaxing, calm MacBook repair and data recovery videos, where you could learn about soldering and electronics repair while watching. And I had no problem with a little bit of honest advertising for his own business.
While the right to repair is important, his videos about it are a lot of rambling and complaining about the same thing again and again. The titles are also often misleading or click baity. I can’t watch them either. I hope they work for the right people, though.
I totally agree. I didn’t know him until I saw a couple of his videos posted in Lemmy and I can’t stand the guy.
At this point I’d guess that the reason for his rambles is to make more money through monetisation.
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Why does it feel like this post is an ad?
Posting the URL grabbed the first line of the video description which is an ad for his repair business.
A person who repairs is talking about right to repair.
Right to repair benefits consumers, whether he makes money from it or not
Selling only a bundle of parts that cost near the price of a new one is worth diddly to consumers. Third party repair is a benefit for consumers and they need individual parts and scematic to repair.
because it is. Every time I see one of this guy’s videos posted it ends up being a clickbait video to promote his business.
