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Right to Repair - We beat Apple at their own game - let the unauthorized calibrations BEGIN! (www.youtube.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Apple has refused to provide the calibration tool for the sleep sensor to independent repair people. A German repairman has beaten Apple and developed a calibration tool.

https://rossmanngroup.com/sleeptool

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why does a laptop need an orientation sensor

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Every laptop for the past few decades has an orientation sensor. It's a standard part of the screen, since people generally want their laptops to sleep when you close them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think that's usually done with capacitive sensing.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Or hall effect sensors (Lenovo laptops use this, I have set them off a few times with magnetic watch band clasps)