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Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

I Fix It Repair Manifesto

Summary article from I Fix It

Summary video by Marques Brownlee

Great channel covering and advocating right to repair, Lewis Rossman

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Voters Overwhelmingly Pass Car Right to Repair Law in Maine (www.404media.co)
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Full text of the ballot initiative: https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2/21/Right_to_Repair_Leg_FINAL.pdf

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[–] Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's geat news!

[–] Jollyllama@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I did this. I was the overwhelming majority.

[–] manapropos@lemmy.basedcount.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How will this look for electric cars

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

So it's been tied up in legislation after Massachusetts passed a similar law in 2020. It's been 3 years. How dambed long are they going to manage to string this shit out?