{"video_id":"XGB4mU9xh1w","title":"The Most \"Apple\" Repair Program Ever...","channel":"TechLinked","show":"TechLinked","published_at":"2022-05-05T14:53:29Z","duration_s":485,"segments":[{"start_s":0.08,"end_s":5.6,"text":"a turret seat ian del luar","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":5.92,"end_s":11.04,"text":"well the teleprompter's upside down how am i supposed to read them the tech news","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":9.44,"end_s":15.2,"text":"that's the challenge apples officially launched their","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.8,"end_s":20.48,"text":"self-service repair program in the u.s this morning which for the first time","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":17.68,"end_s":26.24,"text":"allows regular old joe schmo average schmucks like yours truly to purchase","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":23.279,"end_s":30.72,"text":"and even rent genuine apple parts and tools you don't even have to be a 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or two as pointed out by ifixit first off in order to purchase a part from the self-service repair store the customer must enter the device serial number or imei so you can't just go ordering replacement iphone screens willy-nilly i mean you don't want people to become addicted secondly the prices for repair kits are barely cheaper than what apple charges you to repair the device themselves at an apple store unless you also mail the broken part that you are replacing mail however however while we love making fun of apple as much as the next banana this setup actually kind of makes sense as it will incentivize people to return parts to apple for hopefully proper recycling instead of throwing them into the garbage there are other problems with apple's repair program but at the end of the day it's progress now if only apple would fix the magic mouse charging port because that's still [ __ ] ridiculous forget about that twitch is considering changing its partner program according to a bloomberg report which would cause creators to make less money while running more ads i mean twitch is a good and healthy platform we're making it better and people familiar with the plan say that the proposed changes would make it even happier and healthier at least for amazon shareholders haha so twitch creators who are currently making 70 of subscription revenue could be dropped down to 50 but the good news is that they would be released from exclusivity agreements allowing them to simultaneously stream on youtube or facebook and then they would also be incentivized to run more ads which i guess is supposedly supposed to make up for the smaller cut but that's not really great for the user experience this news coming out was a perfect opportunity for the head of creators at youtube gaming to tweet that their platform still has a 70 30 rev share model and no exclusivity agreement and never did oh yeah and there's always facebook so that your mom can watch your streams we can't help but theorize that this is happening because amazon owns twitch and maybe jeff bezos feels weird about elon musk being the world's richest man and like buying twitter and stuff frankly i kind of get where he's coming from and sega is pulling a nintendo with the announcement that the standalone versions of classic sonic games that are included in the upcoming sonic origins anthology game will be delisted from game stores after may 20th one month before origins launches on june 23rd why would you need them you could also call this pulling a george lucas have we not learned from our past mistakes as a society more jar jar obviously the people hurt most by this are the ones who don't want the entire anthology and just want one of the games but now have to buy the entire collection instead fans are also frustrated by the fact that sonic origins uses the much hated not to mention easily bypassed the nouveau drm system i i think sonic would disapprove quite frankly and super sonic would super disapprove i want to make more references to sonic characters here but frankly i can't think of any i can't make heads or tails of their cast that's terrible that was a bad joke you want a knuckle sandwich do you want some butt quacks riley's here to give them to you now it's time for quick bits brought to you by joby creator of the beloved gorillapod mobile tripod and now a whole new lineup of creator focused audio gear for all kinds of primates realistically mostly humans though there's the huevo pro a flagship on-camera shotgun mic with active noise reduction the wavo pod a podcast or gaming mic ready to plug and play with usb-c the wavo air a wireless lav mic kit that's both high quality and easy to use and the wavo lav pro an ultra small lav mic that pairs perfectly with the huevo pro shotgun for crystal clear audio take your content creation to the next level with joby using the link below butt quacks aren't something you feel there's something you feel wait what huh what NVIDIA is testing a flagship rtx 40 series graphics card according to reports that could draw an insane 900 watts of power according to regular leaker of such things copper87 kimi on twitter although kopite noted that it's unclear whether this card is a predecessor to a real product or simply a prototype to test extreme power draw the leak comes after other rumors pointing to a 600 watt GPU so it's time to put down your pitch forks about GPU shortages and pick up your space heaters and then sell them because you're not going to need space heaters anymore after announcing the discontinuation of their pc game launcher bethesda is now allowing users to initiate the process of transferring their games to steam so you might want to get on that if you haven't already bethesda said that the online transfer tool will remain available for the foreseeable future but i feel like all bets could be off if we get into a real-life fallout situation and you're going to want some games and you're hiding in your vault things things could get real weird down there real big racks sony has now enabled variable refresh rate technology on playstation 5 consoles and some users are reporting that they can use the feature in officially supported and non-supported games even without updating their machine so congrats console players the pc community loves to see that you guys also don't need to apply an update to have a feature that we've had for years without needing an update for years it's heartwarming we really do only want the best for you guys enjoy and pixel watch pixel watch we've seen a lot of pixel watch leaks lately but now the internet is being treated to images of google's flagship wearable on somebody's actual wrist it's a beautiful wrist where we can see it more clearly than ever and it basically looks like a round version of an apple i mean that i mean it was always going to be a watch what was it what was it gonna be more square with little buttons under it it's gonna look like a watch i mean i kind of wish it did because those are cool i don't know about that all right so no more pixel leaks until it comes out in may we're done and buzzfeed news has a great story on the crypto project called metadocs which promised to give buyers of metadocs nfts access to real celebrity doctors with a social media following but then now a bunch of said doctors have left the project since it doesn't have the necessary licenses to operate as a telemedicine service meaning that the doctors can't legally give any medical advice or information to the nft holders but you know what that's just it's early days and when the glorious web 3.0 revolution comes these problems will all be sorted out vaccines will be nfts and then everyone will want them you have hexagon vaccine okay and then you can stick your magnet to it i want to keep going but our license to give tech news just ran out with that magnetic vaccine [ __ ] so come back on friday we're going to have it renewed by then i just got to i got to go talk to my crypto guy riley you know wait what no let's talk for nfts i got a really good deal yeah you just nfd connect what is that"}