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.

I Fix It Repair Manifesto

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Summary video by Marques Brownlee

Great channel covering and advocating right to repair, Lewis Rossman

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[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

TLDR?

[–] Nednarb44@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Basically big companies keep trying to move towards the consumer not owning anything (phones/tractors etc with proprietary software/hardware) which generates a ton of waste and costs the consumer more. It goes over some things like things certain States are fighting back. Overall would highly recommend the channel in general