[Music]
hey everybody how's it going
hope you're having a good friday morning
what you just saw was the new york state
assembly passing right to repair
145 to one
one person voted against it in the
entire assembly
it passed through the senate and now it
passed through the assembly it used to
stall on the assembly use not even get
voted on the assembly now it made its
way to the assembly
everybody besides one person voted in
favor of it now if the senate and the
assembly
both pass a bill it goes to the
governor's desk to get signed into law
so it can still be vetoed by the
governor however
with the amount of bills that were on
the daca to be debated and discussed and
voted on there is no way this ever would
have made it to the floor if they even
had a one percent chance the one percent
idea that maybe the governor would veto
it they just wouldn't waste their time
with it so for the most part we can just
assume at this point that this is going
to become law in new york state this is
the first consumer electronics right to
repair bill to ever be passed in the
united states
ever and it just happened in new york
state
my phone has been vibrating non-stop for
the past hour and a half and it won't
stop from people asking what i think of
this so i thought that i would give some
thoughts and ideas on this above all
what i hope this gets across
to so many people who are cynical that
there's no point why bother i'm going to
fail
is that if you put in effort
it is worth it to continuously pick
yourself back up over and over and over
and over again i did one of my first
videos discussing what it was like to
show up at the legislature around early
2015 and they had lobbyists telling
legislators that if i replace a
component on your apple motherboard i'm
converting it to a pc but i'm
misrepresenting it to the consumer as if
it's still a macbook which is fraud and
that's something that i should not be
allowed to do and those arguments were
actually winning
i have been failing for the past seven
years to get anything passed anywhere in
spite of the fact that i've dedicated my
free time
prior to the non-profit my own personal
money to traveling talking to
legislators everything else
i've been failing for pretty much seven
years and
something finally got done many people
think there is no point to trying
because i will fail and that is true
with many things you try in life in fact
most things you're going to try in life
you will fail however if when you fail
you try again and then you fail and you
try again and you look like an idiot and
everybody is laughing at you and saying
why are you wasting your time on that
why are you being an idiot why are you
being arrogant a lot you continue to
push forward anyway and you learn you
try again you learn and you try again
that you actually have a chance of
getting something done many people will
say that i'm not lucky so i don't have
the ability to accomplish this that or
the other and true luck does have a role
to play in whether or not you are
successful in what you're doing however
your probability of becoming lucky is
directly correlated to how many times
you are willing to try at something like
let's say
are you willing to spend four years
trying to fix a single macbook
motherboard before you fix one
successfully are you willing to try for
seven years to get a bill passed before
you get a single positive vote i read a
lot of facebook posts i read a lot of
twitter posts i read a lot of reddit
posts where people talk about how you
know like they argue and they fight and
they bicker and they talk about how
horrible the world is and how and they
insult each other in these horrible ways
rather than go outside and try to be a
part of the change they want to see in
the world
i don't lecture my neighbor about how
they're a bad person because they
disagree with me that's not been the way
that my advocacy for 99 of it has worked
what i try to do is i try to get people
personally invested in what it is i do
so that i can build the widest possible
coalition of people regardless of all
the other disagreements that understand
why what it is i'm talking about matters
because i make it matter to them whether
we're talking about doing free repair
workshops where anybody can come into my
store and ask my paid employees on the
clock the questions on how to fix their
own stuff for free and let them use our
equipment or whether i'm doing video
walkthroughs on how to understand more
difficult or complex circuits so that
you can fix your own stuff for the past
eight or nine years on this channel
that's what i've done my reddit post
history for the most part over the past
six or seven years anytime somebody
disagrees with this or is kind of
confused about it is usually just saying
okay well here i hear where you're
coming from here's where i'm coming from
rather than stay in my echo chamber i
try to get out of it and engage with as
many people as humanly possible to
actually get some change and one of the
things that happens is if if instead of
staying home and staying in a hashtag
twitter bubble or one individual
subreddit you go out there into the
world and you actually try to do
something something may actually change
and the lesson the takeaway for all of
you regardless of the issue that you
care about that i hope people understand
is that if you stop tweeting and you
stop screaming into echo chambers on
reddit and social media platforms and
you go out there and you try to be a
part of the change you want to see in
the world there's actually a chance of
it happening i've tried to get people
personally invested in what it is that i
care about and what it is that makes me
happy so that you are not just listening
to me say this is why this is important
but you're experiencing it for yourself
that has finally culminated
in getting somewhere
i can't tell you how many times i read
these comments from people saying well
not everybody gets to be lucky like you
or not everybody's going to be able to
be successful like you not everybody's
just going to be able to easily land on
something
and i'm usually an [ __ ] in the
comments to these people and the first
thing that comes into my head i hate to
say it it's like
it actually shows up with the greatest
sunburg accent is
like just the how dare you
how dare you start with that assumption
my life has been
probably five to six percent success
like 90 to 95
failure
most of the things that i try i fail at
and even when i succeed i succeed after
a long period of failure and then once i
finally succeed i find a way to screw it
up again
i can't tell you how many times over the
past 15 years that i've looked in the
mirror and cursed the person out in the
mirror just telling him what an epic
idiot a [ __ ] a dumbass a jackass he is
i'm just i can't believe that you did
this and then you saw how it screwed you
over
and then you were stupid enough to do it
again how did you not see that this
person was trying to screw you
how did you not see that when you did
this bad things were going to happen
why do you keep making the same mistakes
over and over again why don't you learn
the amount of i spent
three to four years
trying to fix a motherboard before i got
one single fix
i've had days where i lost thirty
thousand dollars
i've had days where i got screwed over
by contractors i've had days where i
bankrupted in my entire company
and what i do each time is i pick myself
up
and i try again
and i try again and i go well i guess i
learned from that one and the people
around me may laugh at how stupid they
think i am because in that moment i was
indeed very stupid and i will be very
stupid into the future and i guarantee
there will be days where i look into the
mirror and just want to punch it how so
hard that i break my knuckles on the
glass because i'm that frustrated with
all the things that i've done wrong in
life
what gets you somewhere is not thinking
about how other people are lucky or
thinking about how screwed over you are
but continuing to pick yourself up each
and every single day and keep iterating
whatever it is that you're doing my dad
played the movie for me this movie for
me before i turned 10 years old called
the shawshank redemption and he told me
this movie is going to be a metaphor for
your life you're not going to understand
it until you're older but i want you to
pay attention to this little rock hammer
i'm going to spoil the movie so if you
don't want to have the movie spoiled for
faded pause but you know the idea that
somebody spent 20 years chipping away at
a wall with a rock hammer and managed to
escape a prison and become a
multi-millionaire at the end of it
obviously maybe not all you're going to
become multi-millionaires but a little
chipping away every single day every
single day no matter how much life sucks
at the end of it everybody else's life
still sucked and his didn't
because he did something about it it's
depressing and miserable as it was every
single day just a little bit little bit
of chip a little bit of chipping that's
what happened here
i started talking about this issue in
2013.
it's 2022
and we're not even close to done it's
the less that gets signed into law once
it gets signed into law it will be
challenged by these companies in the
courts and that's going to last a long
time after it's done being challenged in
the courts then they're going to try to
weasel their way out of it they're going
to say well this says we only need to
make available the schematics and stuff
that we make available to our authorized
service centers and uh oh yeah
authorized service centers are the
genius bar
so here have fun with your 999 dollar
part to a thousand dollar computer kind
of thing and we're gonna have to say no
what we want is what the actual service
center gets you know the place that
you're sending the boards to to be
refurbished when the 2011 or 2012
macbook pro gpus have problems we want
the schematics that they get not the
genius bar there's a lot of fighting
that's gonna have to be done up ahead we
are not done this is not over
and i fully expect to have to fight
uphill every
step of the way
the thing is
it still is nice to not lose every
[ __ ] day it still is nice to wake up
and realize oh
that thing that probably should have
happened seven years ago well you know
what better now than never
and that's cause enough for excitement
for me that's caused enough for
celebration for me
i'm happy to see that that happens and
i'm also happy to see that
every single one of you were able to put
aside your cynicism
to try and get something done
as i said
i'm a man who screams into a low
resolution camera no offense framework
all webcams are low resolution but you
get the idea
it's really not me that's doing this
it's groups of people it's every single
person that shows up to these repair
workshops the people that watch my
repair videos that benefit from them
that tell their customers once they're
done fixing something by the way here's
how close you were to this not happening
because you know who some of those
customers are people in the senate and
the assembly it has gotten a lot easier
for me to make my sales pitch because
i'm often making my sales pitch to
people who already informed about this
issue by their family members by their
friends by their local repair shops and
that's you because most of these people
are not watching my youtube channel
so i want you to give yourself a bit of
a round of applause and a pat in the
back for actually getting something done
for going outside for making a phone
call picking up the phone picking up a
pen and paper typing an email actually
doing something anything other than
fighting on twitter and reddit in
facebook
and telling your neighbor what a piece
of [ __ ] they are because they disagree
with you and going back and forth in
this nihilistic matter on how it's all
pointless because you're never going to
change anything i just don't want to
hear that nihilistic victim mentality
[ __ ] anymore that there's just no
point to trying and no point to
bothering because it's all pointless in
one
you guys did something
take some [ __ ] credit for it but
above all take the lesson that you
learned from this and apply it to every
other thing that matters to you i'm also
fully aware of what this is going to
mean for me and my future and the way
that i'm going to be covered in the
future and whereas again this is no
longer a teeny tiny thing that doesn't
really matter this is a serious threat
this is a real bill that is going to get
signed into law in a state with over 20
million people and lots of money there
are lots of people that buy iphones and
macbooks in the state of new york this
is serious and they are not going to let
this one go i've already been called a
bully when i show up at state
legislatures they have told legislators
that i'm a bully to try to get them to
not vote on the bill you have ct wilson
who has said that i'm a racist because i
said that he doesn't understand the
concept of source code when he was
saying that this bill is asking for
source code to be made available when
it's not you have legislators in the
state of massachusetts that were saying
that right to repair helps domestic
abusers stalk their victims and that it
pushes racism and redlining as if a bill
that allows you to choose who fixes your
own car has anything to do with
prejudicial lending when it comes to who
gets mortgages
i have a feeling that the way that i am
covered in the news is going to change
just a little bit in the next three
months to two years but um we'll see how
that goes it's something admittedly it
it's what i signed up for so but i'm
ready for it i think it'll be fun anyway
let me know what you think in the
comments down below but above all thank
you very very very much for all of your
help and all of your work and thank you
to the donor who gave a million dollars
to the 501c3 and every single one of you
that contributed to the 501c4 even a
dollar here 50 cents there or people
that didn't even donate a damn thing but
told their friends their family members
and their politicians why right to
repair matters you're the reason that
this is passing and i genuinely
appreciate having the opportunity to
fund the groups of people that were
always in the room and doing the work
for the past six or seven years that
never had the funding to do things
properly to be able to look at those
people the ones that were actually in
the room and showing up and doing the
work not the people that were just
pretending for the camera or whatever
and being able to say hey
what would help you
get in your mission to get this passed
or to get things moving and for them to
be able to present me with a plan and me
to be able to actually fund their plans
that's making a difference
that's something i wouldn't have been
able to do without all of you admittedly
i'm gonna be honest slightly bigger
thank you goes to the dude that chipped
in a million that stuff like that does
help
but again
everybody
truly from the bottom of my heart
thank you
that's it for today and as always i hope
you learned something i'll see you in
the next video bye now