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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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Breaking "DRM" in Polish trains [video] – 37c3 presentation (streaming.media.ccc.de)
submitted 10 months ago by kilgore_trout@feddit.it to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de
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They had a talk space yesterday night at Chaos Communication Congress. These three guys are modern heroes.

Follow up to https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/7760263

cross-posted from: https://derp.foo/post/544012

There is a discussion on Hacker News, but feel free to comment here as well.

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[–] RAM@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

that is just a crazy story 😅

I'm happy this is getting the publicity it deserves and I can't wait to see how it unfolds from here on :))

hopefully it will put a spotlight on the right to repair everything and spark some new laws on the matter 🤞

[–] kilgore_trout@feddit.it 3 points 10 months ago

I hope too.

[–] exec4@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

https://tube.pol.social/videos/watch/964bacb1-7268-4d00-bb49-1822c70195b3

Watch it on the fediverse

[–] Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

Thanks for posting, really good vid!