this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2025
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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.

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Great channel covering and advocating right to repair, Lewis Rossman

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[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Enshitification strikes again. We need more open source hardware not just right to repair.

[–] Cris_Color@lemmy.world 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Louis has also talked a lot about right to own, and I think this kinda falls under that umbrella, even if not as much a right to repair issue

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 days ago

The DMCA really fucked us long term. Cory Doctorow has thankfully been highlighting the damage it’s done. It’d be awesome if Canada had the gumption to drop their version now that our asshole president is tariffing the shit out of them.