Washington’s Right to Repair Bill Heads to the Governor

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• thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Great news. About time something good happened politically.

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• SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The right to repair doesn’t do any good it everything is DESIGNED to “not be repaired”.

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  • thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s not only quite defeatist it’s not really true. Everything can be reverse engineered, obviously in some cases it’s not economical, but John Deere tractors and their obnoxious lockdowns are a classic case of where this leads to genuine value for people. JD robbing the farmers of the ability to perform simple repairs and charging huge bucks to do them ends up with costs on your grocery bill. This bill doesn’t directly impact that I don’t believe but it’s the simplest clearest example of why this is important.

    This is brilliant news - we’re all better off for it.

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    • ernest314@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      This bill doesn’t, but the senate version did iirc. Still, it’s obviously a step in the right direction.

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    • SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Have you tried replacing the starter on your car. I could be this easy or what they do now. Image

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