Comment on Report: Consumer Hardware Still Often Impossible To Repair Despite New State ‘Right To Repair’ Laws
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 month agoSame with all the people who think they are going to re-solder every single connection on a tiny chip.
lol I finally hacked my original switch to eventually dual boot android and was considering doing it on my OLED, too.
Then I watched the guides. Fuck that.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
No no no. Don’t you see, Right To Repair means that it is a legal requirement for every single company to provide a button that will fix and do anything you want at zero cost to you!
You know, as opposed to minimizing unnecessarily coupled parts and part signing to prevent third party companies who do have the fancy oven to desolder a chip from charging you to do it. And… some of that is definitely people like Rossman who will gladly switch between talking to consumers and other repair companies as it suits his argument.
Also: While I firmly do not expect a switch to last anywhere near long enough to make it worth doing, it is also totally worth doing a soldering project or two. It is a good skill to have and gives you a lot more insight into what is being talked about when these topics come up.
conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m not anti soldering. I’ve done some wires or whatever.
But they’re scraping away covering on traces and it looked like cutting into stuff on top of the package. It’s for sure beyond my skill level, and while the OLED was worth the money as an original switch owner for the bigger screen (I play almost all handheld), the difference in effort to hack it? Not so much.