L. Ron Hubbard’s literary organization told the U.S. copyright office that it didn’t support DMCA exemptions for repairing personal electronics.
  • hi_its_me@lemmy.worldEnglish
    80·
    2 years ago

    Out of curiosity, has there ever been a teardown of one of these to see what kind of snake oil actually powers them?

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    391·
    2 years ago

    I might have a solution, just hear me out… what if they just folded their phony religion and left everyone alone? See? Everyone wins!

    • Cabrio@lemmy.worldEnglish
      291·
      2 years ago

      Fuck scientology, but honestly, props to Ron. It takes a significant amount of rizz and a good lack of fucks to go from being quoted on how lucrative it would be to start a religion while he was a well known science fiction author, only to make a religion and gain untold wealth.

      I mean it’s one thing to grift an idiot, but when you tell them to their face that you’re going to grift them who’s fault is it really?

      • BakedGoods@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        2 years ago

        Problem is when you start grifting kids. They can’t exactly consent. Same issue with any religion/grift really. If it’s aimed at a child it’s abuse.

  • Treczoks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    36·
    2 years ago

    “Repairing” as in “noticing they don’t actually do anything beside measuring resistance like any common multimeter from the DIY shop”

    • dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      71·
      2 years ago

      Do they even measure resistance? Hold the probes on a multimeter. Tell me how much resistance you’re measuring. With my MM I’m registering microohms.

      • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
        10·
        2 years ago

        That just goes to show how important proper training is. Without the right scientology certifications you have no idea how many evil alien ghosts living in your soul those microohms indicate!

      • XeroxCool@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        … Do you mean you’re measuring megaohms (M) across your body? Or microohms (u) between probes directly? Or milliohms (m)?

        I’ve wet my finger and measured like 30kOhms across a half inch of skin or so. And if you get into your bloodstream, the salty liquid has very low resistance BUT BUT BUT this will kill you if the probe paths across your heart

  • YeetPics@mander.xyzEnglish
    27·
    2 years ago

    Zenu forbid everyone finds out their off-the-shelf multimeter from the 70s is just as special and important as their beliefs (not at all).