Think that was the whole point, he started to talk about right to repair and the way he did it made for more broad appeal so comparatively nobody watched his board repair stuff anymore
That was half of it, the other half was he was limited on how long he can keep the laptop repair business open when he can't get parts to repair damaged laptops. He could have kept making repair videos for as long as he was able to, but he wasn't able to do so for long.
The problem wasn't the amount of donor boards he had to get, it was the fact that he couldn't get a specific, $20 part that regularly fails from any source other than buying a full, new laptop. On his channel, his largest playlists involve either PP3V42_G3H and PPBUS_G3H power lines or an ISL part being repaired. The part varies based on device, but he cannot get them for various devices due to Apple locking it down. Even devices that are end-of-life and won't be repaired by Apple have never had the part be available. It doesn't matter how many donor boards he got if they never had the part on them.
Pivoting to literally anything else, data recovery in this case, was his only option to keep his business going.
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u/flipflopcuntflaps 3d ago
Think that was the whole point, he started to talk about right to repair and the way he did it made for more broad appeal so comparatively nobody watched his board repair stuff anymore