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Right To Repair

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Throwing a wrench into the gears of planned obsolescence.

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Right-to-repair is now the law in California (www.theverge.com)
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[–] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Much needed. My completely working mobile device is on Year 5, except it can barely hold a charge longer than 10 mins. Without protections like this, it'll go in the garbage.

I can only imagine how many devices are like mine that people DO toss.