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Comment on Google Will Now Back Right-to-Repair

TLDW: They are basically advocating for selling assemblies of parts for "user safety". So for example, if one chip on a motherboard was broken, instead of selling the individual part, they want to sell you the entire board with all the other parts attached (which can cost nearly as much as the device was new).
Also went over how they can buy a device cheaper than the cost of buying a genuine part from the manufacturer.

They are grabbing good PR headlines with backing one complaint point in the right to repair scene, but then also backing a bunch of anti-repairability in the rest of their post, neatly snuggled away in a bunch of corpo talk bullshittery.

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macattack@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
That was my sentiment exactly. What’s the point of fixing a device if the replacement part is marked up excessively. Feels like bad faith actors

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AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
I mean it’s better than nothing. Hopefully it leads to more economical repair kits. On a personal note, of the repair required soldering chips onto/off the board I would much rather buy a working board then try to replace a single chip.

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- TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  would much rather buy a working board then try to replace a single chip.
  
  That's perfectly fine for you, but I do own a hot air rework station, so give me the option.
  
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- verysoft@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sure, but most people wouldn't even want to attempt a board replacement and would rather take it to a repair shop. Replacing an entire section of a device because one tiny part is broken is not helping the e-waste problem repairability is trying to work on.
  
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  - grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    the e-waste problem repairability is trying to work on.
    
    Just to be clear, reducing e-waste is just a fringe benefit and kinda beside the point. The real reason for repairability is that it’s the device owner’s property right, and to try to restrict repairs (or worse, make them “illegal” via inserting frivolous DRM and invoking the DMCA) is to infringe on that right.
    
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- KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  yeah, you basically need to be a pro at reflow soldering. but that’s the thing about independent shops, they’re willing to put in the extra work to be as economical as possible. ends up being cheaper though.
  
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KpntAutismus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
“buzzword, buzzword, buzzword, anyway consume product. don’t worry about how we group unreliable parts in with the expensive ones.”

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