Fucking Asus won't even sell me a battery for my laptop because it would require me to open the back plate of the device. I have to take it to a service centre and pay them to install it!

Asus didn't even sell replacement batteries for my enterprise grade laptop at all. The best thing is that the battery is removable... I had to buy one from sketchy chinese/polish shop that tried to scam me, but eventually they sent the battery.

I mean, this should be illegal but whatever.

@molaram *cringes in linux

@lamka02sk They're talking about a right to repair bill here that hopefully deals with this type of shitfuckery. Until then I guess I'm at the mercy of the Russian mob. again

Why would it bother them if you open the back plate of your laptop? Warranty issues?

@asgs I guess so, they just gave me some bullshit about policy.

in case like this, you should buy a third party battery and install it yourself.

I'll need to solve a similar issue soon. Are they anal about the microshit OS being replaced?

If I remember right you can search for the battery number and find any number of places to sell you a battery. I "thought" I saw batteries on amazon too.

@ostream louis rossman has a business and a channel where he talks about right to repair apple laptops. Although recently it's taken a turn for some serious rants, understandably. Apple seems to be forcing their repair shops out and price gating repairs.

@vomitmachine Apple is just doing a whole lot of shitty things. They were opposed to legislation that made "forced labor" (ie slavery) illegal. They actively lobbied to keep slave labor in China.

@Demolishun I wouldn't doubt that kind of stuff, but do you have any kind of references for that? Seems pretty extreme.

@molaram why would you choose bad service and loss of kidney over bad service and keeping your kidney

@NoMad I replaced the hdd with an nvme and gave MS the boot, but I didn't even get into that with them...