Comment on Report: Consumer Hardware Still Often Impossible To Repair Despite New State ‘Right To Repair’ Laws
jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoIf you aren’t comfortable doing that then you aren’t comfortable “working on” your car.
You’ve written a whole lotta junk to essentially end on, “if you can’t jack up your car and remove the wheel, you shouldn’t be changing your headlight in the first place.”
Which is quite a dumb take.
jmp242@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I mean, most people don’t think ease of changing a light bulb (that they never have to do) is a deal breaker for a car. I haven’t had to change a headlight since they went to LEDs. My last car that was 7 years of owning it.
I think we should insist on making things repairable, but should focus on the things that come up frequently.
Because everything is a tradeoff, things like how often it is likely to need repair, how much the car costs, functionality of the car day to day, looks, gas mileage, heck a lot of stuff will come before a once a decade thing that you’re either going to pay a shop to do or trade before it’s an issue.