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.

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Stolen e-bike batteries could soon be worthless, if only Bosch were less greedy (www.theverge.com)

submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/29515358

A subscription anti-theft feature that should be free.

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[–] n3m37h@sh.itjust.works 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This crap goes against right to repair. Serialization of parts is bullshit.

[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 18 points 6 months ago

Yeah, this feels more like preventing third party batteries from working. An average shady shop can definitely hotwire this.

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

I think they should have a system that will make these things explode if stolen. Would be nice karma

[–] Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago

Does this also mean all of their ebikes will become unusable if their servers go offline?