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

Summary article from I Fix It

Summary video by Marques Brownlee

Great channel covering and advocating right to repair, Lewis Rossman

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Tuxedo Laptops? (discuss.tchncs.de)
submitted 2 years ago by WenAmon@discuss.tchncs.de to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
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I am looking for a new computer and am considering a Tuxedo Laptop. Do you know how easy they are to repair and upgrade? I enjoy my Fairphone too much to her an unrepairable Notebook.

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EU Just Changed Smartphones Forever (iv.melmac.space)
submitted 2 years ago by upto11@discuss.tchncs.de to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
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Replaceable batteries may came back.

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New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment by Hugh Jeffreys (youtu.be)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
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Copied from the technology thread:

No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple's anti-repair and anti-consumer bs. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can't even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don't even own it.

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I Fix It has really great repair guides (www.ifixit.com)
submitted 2 years ago by Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
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Fix tons of things from macbooks to trucks to cameras. I think they have something like a hundred thousand guides.

Many companies are making their things harder to fix, but from what I've seen, IFixIt has been pretty fast to try and circumvent them.

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EPA affirms farmers’ Right to Repair (kfgo.com)
submitted 2 years ago by copacetic@discuss.tchncs.de to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
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