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Basically (in the US) you can't force the consumer not to be able to use a third party or personally fix their own device, and if the consumer breaks currently applicable warranty by opening said device it breaks that law, assuming the imac had warranty apple would be breaking that law (this is the wiki for the legal stuff, this sums the situation up). I buy power supply supply kits for my diy projects, largest one bought and soldered together was rated at 250 watts I think, def not average layman stuff but even modern power supplies are quite easy to repair because they don't tend to use SMT components, and the stuff that's likely to break (diodes/caps/resistors) are easy peasy replacements (if you're at least somewhat used to electronics). I might be an exception because I've had my fair share of electrical kisses, most recent one was a teslacoil.

With mechanics you can usually find another one that's willing to repair if you pay enough, or you can simply fix it yourself (and then take it through inspection to make sure everything's in order). The car manufacturer are required by law to offer the services and parts to fix their vehicles (at least for a few year after it's released). That's one of the main differences here, not even having the option to fix a product you own even though the resources exist, just because said services are locked down and the manufacturer is stingy.

From the stuff said earlier in the thread it seems canadian AASP's don't have the option to take the course to become an imac pro technician for the specific model, at least from what I've understood.

I would actually argue against that because I got my imac for free that way :P, the company was gonna trash it because it stopped working (so I took it home), a couple days of diagnostics and it was the stock ram that had gone bad (there was also an aftermarket stick and that one still worked fortunately).

That liability is exactly why Apple (well at least sensible companies) would want their products repaired regardless, if I accidentally do a "money shift" with my car the manufacturer will be happy to provide a new engine for x amount of money so they know that I won't just DIY fit some other engine into the car. Plus it gives them LOTS of good customer feedback compared to saying "nope we can't help you, we can't even order the parts to this country atm", that's at least what most other markets do. If the product costs more to repair than replace they should probably offer that as a preffered option, but denying service to a product they have a monopoly on is really unwise for several reasons, mostly for all the bad pr they gained from this entire situation.

The problem with that is that most online services requires either a credit or debit card number, so the online banking bits don't generally help. I'd honestly rather not use 3rd party services and just live without getting LTT content a little while before other people do, it's really not the end of the world.

Because it worked wonderfully for being an in bank method, if any info leaked while I used privacy.com mentioned above (doubt it though) and I lost a lot of money I'm pretty sure every bank writes off their responsibility in case users uses such services, paypal included. The e-card was convenient, the closest competition any actual bank in sweden has/had is to get another actual card, and even then you still run a bigger risk of abuse as you still only really have two cards to rely on.

I'm not stopping my subscription because of something bad on LTT's side, by all means subscribe the hell out of them to get that sweet WIP comment section at the same time as you are supporting them. It's just that the bank I have here in swedistan have cancelled their service allowing me to make an "e-card" which was a really awesome service for online purchases (even though it relied on flash and was very crusty), so from now on I'm gonna use those $36 a year for something else. I do still wanna explain the awesomeness that was the virual debit card though, even though it doesn't exist with the bank I use anymore. So what they had as a service was to make a temporary bank card that only existed in their servers that acted just like a debit card with a set amount of money you could choose (and expiration date). You could do many fun things with this, you could do like I did and hook the "temporary" e-card with a max balance of like $250 to different services like floatplane and random small purchases on paypal and for other things You could also make multiple of these, so those shady asian websites you order stuff from? just make a temp card that only holds the minimum amount of money you need for purchase + a little buffer of about $5 or so just in case they need verify stuff. After the purchase is verified just delete the card and any potential to try and withdraw more from the card is impossible (and even then tried they would only find that it had about $5 before maxing out). I'm very sad they had to kill off that service, but hey, it was fun while it lasted. Wishing the best to the Floatplane project and LTT because I won't come back to anything subscription based unless they implement a similar service in the future, and Floatplane was the only real reason I even came to the forums.

(TL;DR What's the height from mobo to the top of an AM4 processor). I've started to make a 3d model of a potential mITX build in the future when I have money for that kinda thing, but I've been stumped in finding any information on any dimensions of the AM4 socket. Finding the dimensions of the AM3 socket takes about 5 seconds of googling, but there's no info on AM4 (it seems to be thinner, but I don't know by how much). The dimensions of the actual CPU from top to bottom and its width/height is the same as previous models. The reason I need the height is because I want to know what the tallest/biggest cooler I can fit will be (case will be fairly small), but without knowing even roughly how tall the total package is I have no idea other than somewhere between 35 and 40mm (the leeway is from a couple mm of space to allow airflow, and I could optimize it with solid numbers). If someone has an unpopulated AM4 board or a half finished build without a cooler attached (and a pair of calipers), I'd be really happy if I could get some dimensions. Here's a diagram showing the helpful ones: I only need the AB length because the CPU height (without pins) should still be 4.5mm (same as previous generations), so if you get the height from mobo to the actual socket, or just the entire thing I will be very grateful. The other dimensions would also be cool to have, but really I can figure the rest out by guessing. Thanks in advance.

Might cause issues for actual legal agreements for the events that LTT had with sponsors? I'm not sure what the specifics are but I'd guess that'd be roughly it

hmm AGP, think I actually got some of those stashed away in a shed outside our house, I at least know for a fact I still have some old soundblaster soundcards kicking around somewhere.

you know yourself that's something that can be fixed with an angle grinder

I know that feel, I used to have an old pc with a pentium 4 processor, but I threw it away a couple of years ago

I liked the separate search bar, keeping search terms and websites separate helps me from accidentally entering something the browser interprets as a website, like chrome does sometimes (this is incredibly annoying), tab design I really don't care about as long as it keeps the scrolling tabs thing so I can fit a lot of tabs without needing like 20 windows to keep track of things.

I'm not sure how well it'll undervolt (as in I really honestly don't even know half of the factors), but it should behave similarly to how Ryzen behaves considering they use the same manufacturing for the actual dies. If we take a Ryzen 1800X, it's 95 watts TDP, the die size of a Zeppelin (Ryzen) die is 192 mm2, the die size of a Vega 10 die is 484 mm2, 484/192*95 = ~240W. Then when you look at the RX Vega 64 it has a slightly higher TDP (probably due to a higher density of working transistors), so AMD might have done the same thing as Ryzen and already pushed the safe limits of what you can extract from the chip (until 14nm LPP comes around or something).