hey everybody how's it going so today i
wanted to just do this video
on uh my sincere appreciation and
gratitude that i have towards linus at
linus tech tips for his recent video
if you haven't seen it you should check
it out on this channel you know where to
find it
and it's on right to repair he covered
right to repair and he went over it
better than i think i
probably have on this channel in the
past seven or eight years i have a
tendency to ramble and repeat myself it
makes me a bad speaker and bad at
getting things across
he got the point across very quickly he
was able to in 10 or 12 minutes
managed to fit in every point i've gone
over for the past six to seven years
every single point that a consumer
should know every single straw man
argument against right to repair
and a [ __ ] sponsored ad spot on 12
minutes i don't know how he does it
but he did it and he did a very good job
of it and i wanted to express my
gratitude for several reasons the first
being that he has a much larger audience
than me
of a lot and it's a lot more generalized
audience you know it's not just going to
be people that are interested
in uh you know [ __ ] talking new crappy
new york city real estate
or component level soldering and pp bus
g3 hot being 8.1 volts instead of 8.5
and the smc is dead
so there's a lot more people that are
going to know what right to repair is
now as a result
of what he did the second reason i
appreciate it is because i understand
what he's giving up by doing that video
what do i mean by that i remember there
was someone that i as one of my better
friends
and it was a family member who was
involved with venture capital and things
like this and they wanted to help me out
with this
with this non-profit they were happy to
do so and the moment they figured out
what it was they went to their work
and figured out it was a conflict of
interest and they would not be able to
help me with it
because they dealt with certain
companies not apple but certain other
companies that i honestly would have
never expected to be anti-right to
repair
their though the anti-right to repair
rabbit hole goes so
far deeper than just apples some medical
companies in john deere or samsung or
anything like that there's
there's a lot of people out there that
want to see this recurring revenue
bundle or scott galloway calls it the
rundle
where you're constantly paying each year
each month to get access to something
whereas in the past you just paid once
now you pay over and over again
right to repair and the ability to fix
something so it lasts longer
so that you're not as interested in
getting a new one or paying for a
subscription service or paying for some
uh recurring insurance that you pay for
every month it really does go against
what a lot of companies are looking to
do
and i was incredibly surprised that
someone that i've i've spoken to that
seems like a much more
talented sociable person than i am would
not be allowed to work for my
organization because of the conflict of
interest
with their job doing something that for
a company that i really didn't think had
anything to do with this
so what am i talking about here the fact
that he did this video
in and the fact that he has so many
sponsors
that are involved in consumer
electronics and computer hardware and so
on and so forth
putting his you know just drawing his
line in the sand and saying this is what
i believe
i'm on this side of it knowing that he
has over a dozen employees that he has
to pay livable wages to
and knowing that he has a company to run
expenses and he's responsible for all
these people i know what that feels like
and to put a line in the sand in a way
that's going to potentially cause
a rift or an issue between yourself
and some of these sponsors or companies
that may have been willing to sponsor
you that may not be willing to now
that means that he's probably giving up
money to to say what he said
and anytime someone that has a staff of
people that they're responsible for
for you know having a roof over their
head and feeding and paying for their
stuff for their health care i guess not
healthcare because he's in canada they
don't have the [ __ ] system we do
here
he's responsible for the lives and
families of all these people that's the
way i feel as a business owner
and he is and in order to speak about
what he spoke about
he may be leaving a lot of money on the
table or watching that money leave the
table
as a result of it and i appreciate that
and i respect that i want to say thank
you very much for that i know what you
may be losing as a result of doing this
and i genuinely
appreciate what you did you got this
across to a large group of people that
may have not known about it may have not
cared about it
and you know you just planted a seed
that's not that's really all i'm asking
i'm not asking
everybody to change their mind or you
know
run to their local legislature
immediately honestly i would just be
happy having a seed planted
in the minds of a bunch of people that
eventually grows into a tree of
why can't i find a part to fix something
i owe
when i used to be able to do this just a
generation or two ago
so yeah i'm happy and i didn't i saw the
video today
and i didn't want to wait until tomorrow
to to say thank you but i also didn't
feel like turning on my lighting and
computer and using davinci and all that
other crap to edit a video because it's
kind of late and i just wanted to go to
sleep
so i just wanted to get this out there
and say thank you very much i am very
grateful
and uh i hope to be able to do to
continue doing amazing things with this
i am speaking with some people about
bills that exist in some of the current
states
some of the things is if you want to do
a direct ballot initiative it's kind of
weird to do a direct ballot initiative
when you have a bill that's already
introduced in that state especially if
the direct ballot initiative bill may be
different
some of these bills that are in some of
the states at the moment as they read
i think that it could be interpreted
that
i wouldn't be able to get access to
things like let's say schematics or
chipsets
i'd be able to get access to what the
authorized repair manufacture
what the manufacturer's authorized
repair center gets ma access to
which as i've demonstrated in many of
these videos is pretty much
you know like a shipping label printer
in a box that you could ship it back to
the manufacturer and have them give you
a refurbished one when you have nothing
but wrong with your phone but your
charge board
so that's not that may not work so it's
going to be
interesting threading this needle
figuring out what to do mre
should we introduce in new states are we
able to edit the bills in some of these
states if we're not able to edit the
bills in these states is there a way
you know finagle editing them if we
can't
can we go on the ballot am i going to
raise enough to actually be able to go
on the ballot if i don't raise enough to
go on the ballot maybe i'll just do
traditional lobbying in many of these
states in order to try to push bills
forward
that uh that believe in what i say on
the schematics or die t-shirt
but this is a movement and i think that
we made some progress today and you know
linus is to thank for that so by all
means check out his video
and give him a thank you i think he's
earned it he deserves it
again anytime someone gives up their own
personal
money but potential to generate revenue
and income into the future
they use to feed their staff because
they have a principle and they want to
stick to that principle
i respect you you know linus and i have
fundamental
deep differences deep
rooted cultural ingrained differences
socks and sandals are not okay
but i will give him a pass because he
did something really good today and i
was i wanted to say i'm grateful anyway
did i say in the beginning of this video
i have a tendency to repeat myself i do
so i'm out of here i'll see you all in
the next one thank you so much