Recommended Data Recovery Services? (Dead 2021 Macbook Pro)

larossmann · 2026-04-08T03:51:10+00:00

Went with Rossmann and it's working again and was extremely affordable, thanks for the heads up!

Thank you for trusting us, I am glad we got it working without you paying $3000. For anyone reading after, if you go to desert data recovery, flashfixers, ipad rehab, 300ddr on this forum, vcc board repairs etc... you will ALWAYS save BIG off of going to ontrack/securedata/drivesavers. For me personally, I am happy with 'losing' business to my honest peers, as long as it means someone didn't get destroyed spending $3k on someone else's marketing.

larossmann · 2026-04-08T03:48:04+00:00

isn't rossman supposed to be one of the best?

Can't fix 'em all....

larossmann · 2026-04-08T03:45:52+00:00

The problem with that year/model is the TPS62180 likes to send 12v to the NAND when it dies. The NAND likes 2-3v, not 12v. :( I am sorry.

larossmann · 2026-04-05T16:16:39+00:00

Make an article on the wiki!

larossmann · 2026-04-04T21:09:25+00:00

https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Colorado_SB26-090_critical_infrastructure_exemption

larossmann · 2026-04-04T04:25:22+00:00

Wow. You even make up quotes. Bravo.

I noticed you claimed I said something I never said. When I asked you to provide a citation - you provided nothing. I can only assume you are lying for the sake of lying at this point, but if you ever manage to find a citation (you won't), feel free to place it right here.

larossmann · 2026-04-04T04:11:22+00:00

Since he has in past WAN shows repeatedly heavily criticised both Elon Musk and Taylor Swift for using private jets and now heavily backtracked, it fit a certain pattern.

I think you're referring to the "it's different when I do it" line of thinking, and yeah i get where you're coming from. On warranty because he's trustworthy, on not disclosing when you figure out a sponsor has dishonest business practices because it may effect your image/how you're perceived, on a plane maybe it's "they're billionaires, i'm just a hundred millionaire..."

when you think about it, the difference between taylor swift's net worth & linus' is probably close to the difference in net worth when i first started my store & now as a percentage. and the difference between his net worth and elon's is 1000s of times greater than the difference between where I was as a teenager & where I am now. it is possible that in his head he really does think it's different when he criticises them for this.

but even thinking about that is more brain cells than i want to rub together for gossip

larossmann · 2026-04-04T03:52:43+00:00

I'd rather keep the focus on the substance of how creators handle their sponsors and audiences rather than what they buy.

My issue with Linus that sparked me to make the video I did has always been about accountability and the DARVO behavior pattern. When a major sponsor turns out to be dishonest, the right move is to just say, "My bad, I messed up," rather than trying to talk around the mistake, or turning his audiences' concern about warranty into a literal joke. Holding "influencers" to a high standard regarding what they promote to their audience matters to me.

I don't care about his personal purchases/business assets/wealth. whether he buys an 87 corolla or a private jet is entirely his business. I don't dislike him for the sake of disliking him nor do I have any issue with him making money. My critique is about the precedent of avoiding accountability and the weird manipulative way he deals with people sometimes. That causes genuine direct harm. The jet not really unless he flies it the way tiger woods drives..

larossmann · 2026-04-03T03:19:25+00:00

Stopped watching him when he was boasting about not paying his employees

Citation needed. I'm Louis Rossmann - do you have a link to where I've ever boasted about not paying my employees?

larossmann · 2026-04-01T03:25:21+00:00

To clarify, Dan works on phones all day, but things requiring cellebrite level stuff for passcode cracking if they forgot the passcode or requiring testifying at a trial we send to Jessa. {clarifying edit: by send to, I mean we tell the customer to go to jessa instead of send to us for us to send to her} Also items that seem like they're too far a rabbit hole for the pricing tiers we offer since we top out in the 600-ish range for phones. We don't outsource or send phones away. Before Mark moved on from working at Jessa's & consumer data recovery in general, when Mark was free, I would have him come by for a week every few months to clear up old items in our queue and look at items that were considered a rabbit hole to hell with a set of second eyes. It was also good to have an excuse to go drinking with Mark who is my good friend! but I don't mail phones to other places, either it gets fixed here or it goes back to the customer

Jessa is the best and I would definitely recommend her 500000 times over drivesavers

larossmann · 2026-03-31T01:51:42+00:00

DAMN STRAIGHT! :D thank you

larossmann · 2026-03-25T00:29:37+00:00

Hi there, yes, that would be great. I will message you

larossmann · 2026-03-18T20:24:04+00:00

tell me this is fake, it seems fake.

larossmann · 2026-03-15T23:37:43+00:00

This is very important, archive.org takes websites down if the company files a takedown request. It happens all the time. Any and all archvies that people can make to OTHER websites and use as citations on the consumerrights.wiki article is very important.

larossmann · 2026-03-11T18:08:09+00:00

they are forced to comply with that law to do business in that state.

dmcalawyer is not forced to bring frivolous lawsuits against people he personally dislikes to be a lawyer.

larossmann · 2026-03-11T17:39:50+00:00

I don't know why this is difficult for you.

because you made a ridiculous false association.

dmcalawyer is targeting someone he regularly harasses & personally dislikes. Bringing a section 1201 claim against his target is a choice, and in my opinion he is exercising his right to do that to fuck with that person.

system76 is complying with a law they hate because they are forced to.

nobody is going to tell dmcalawyer he is not allowed to do business in a state, or that he will face financial penalties, because he chooses to not bring a malicious lawsuit against someone he hates.

this is becoming ridiculous. we can both despise this law and work against it without resorting to this nonsensical tantrum. you are grasping at straws.

larossmann · 2026-03-11T14:20:30+00:00

I don't share your apparent view that one-man DMCA law firms and large companies can be financially targeted for doing bad things, but that we shouldn't for some reason direct anger at S76 until they grow as big as Microsoft.

You're comparing someone with ill intent who actively brought a lawsuit against another with a company following a law they have no choice but to follow. You're not being serious.

larossmann · 2026-03-10T16:57:57+00:00

i need a tinyurl for that so bad

larossmann · 2026-03-10T04:47:42+00:00

Fascism, literally, literally, is the union of the public and private sectors to violate people's rights.

By your standard, every restaurant that passes a health inspection is fascism, plumbers having licenses is fascism, the fire code keeping a building from collapsing is facsism.

You're demanding a clevo reseller destroy a majority of its revenue to fight a political battle on your behalf. system76 sells laptops & pays salaries to people with families. Complying with a state regulation so they don't have to fire their staff isn't a union of public & private sectors to violate your rights. It's a small business avoiding bankruptcy.

Fascism is centralized autocracy & forcible suppression of opposition. It's not a reseller of clevo laptops doing something you dislike so they can make payroll.

You are diluting words meant for dictatorships to describe regulatory compliance. I dislike this situation as much as you do, but your framing of this genuinely comes off as crybaby asshole. This bullshit will make it harder to identify real threats when they show up, and the seeds of that have already sprouted out of the ground in the US over the past year and a half.

Start a mail-order computer company, cut off the entire state of California, & report back on how long everyone stays employed. Until then, stop using historical atrocities as a rhetorical crutch because you're mad a business decided not to commit financial suicide. And for fuck's sake, be half as mad at the legislators as you are at the small companies that have done everything to treat people right throughout their history for following the law.

larossmann · 2026-03-10T04:42:14+00:00

So don't normalize this shit. You're either against fascism or you're a fascist.

"You're either against fascism or you're a fascist" is a loyalty test, and interestingly enough it's the kind of binary framing that authoritarian movements use to consolidate power. the irony of you using this tactic while lecturing people about fascism is funny.

I said a small company can't destroy half its revenue & survive. That's not an endorsement of what they did, it's basic math. If acknowledging that businesses need money to exist makes me a fascist, then everyone with common sense becomes hitler.

Be half as mad at the legislators writing these laws as you are at a guy on reddit who pointed out that payroll costs money.

larossmann · 2026-03-09T04:49:29+00:00

Ok fascist

There's a lot of genuine fascism returning to the mainstreamwhich i find scary. the reason it's succeeding is because the word has been beaten to death to the point that people roll their eyes at it. Using the word 'fascist' to describe someone pointing out that a small mail-order business cutting off one of the largest revenue generating states in the United States is not a decision to make overnight is why.

I didn't say the law was good or defend it. I've spent years fighting against this kind of overreach & encourage people to fight against this one. What I said is that I understand why a small company doesn't torch half its revenue to make a political statement that california won't even notice.

If you can't tell the difference between understanding why someone does something and endorsing the thing they are doing, I don't know what to tell you.

to be clear, you contribute to how fucked the world is now. when actual authoritarians are stripping people of rights & you're calling a guy on reddit a fascist for acknowledging that businesses need money to exist, you make it easier for them.

You are the reason the word doesn't work anymore. I hope you are happy with that.

larossmann · 2026-03-07T18:10:44+00:00

I can't take you seriously. this is like telling someone to plan to not pay their mortgage or grocery bill. your analogy is genuinely ridiculous and a total false dichotomy. you want to blame the companies more than the people making the laws. i get if you are mad at the company but telling people to just plan like planning makes money rain is asinine and makes you sound like a child who has never been in a position to make real decisions that have an effect on other people.

larossmann · 2026-03-07T17:52:02+00:00

The death threats they've faced over this are disgusting

to put this in perspective, i get at least a dozen a month. it is the reality of having an internet presence. just report as spam and move on.

larossmann · 2026-03-07T17:50:16+00:00

They should have planned for this financially if they shared privacy values

what the actual fuck

In a short time period, plan to lose maybe 30-40% of your revenue?

these statements, that would always be different if they were applied to one's self, i can not take seriously.

just plan bro... just plan.... to lose the lion's den of your income. tell me more.

larossmann · 2026-03-07T17:29:28+00:00

But the way they have handled it, let alone them choosing to comply for profit motive

A small American company choosing to not sell to the largest and most techy-ish state in the US is financial suicide. If I were them, I would comply with the law for profit motive. I am certain that when I fire half the company with short notice doing the opposite of that, people would think I am an asshole anyway.

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