Gah don’t even go there. I’ve said this before but “right to repair” is a not very elaborate con supported by manufacturers to shift their responsibility onto the end user for poor engineering as soon as possible.
They will laugh all the way to the bank while shouting “it’s out of warranty - here’s the schematics” when you knock that poorly chosen USB-C connector on the motherboard and damage it. Hint: they mostly aren’t replaceable or repairable these days. You’re then at the mercy of a network of idiots and morons to do your repairs.
We need better than a right to repair. We need the manufacturers to support the device for the full lifecycle with all costs covered including ones from crappy engineering decisions like mounting wear items like connectors on the motherboard of laptops etc.
Right to repair allows the manufacturers to abandon their support and push the responsibility onto people who are mostly incapable of repairing them. In fact even most of the people on this forum and professional engineers are incapable of repairing them as well.
And quite frankly who wants to use a 10 year old laptop?
Also Mr Rossman is there selling this ideology because he’s a salesman selling his repair product. He wants you to come to his business and wants the manufacturers to keep on with this crap because it fills his pockets. And some of his repairs are quite frankly shit. I’ve actually had a discussion with him about this on the forum ![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif)
In an ideal world:
1. When you buy anything it has a 72 hour replacement or service policy that lasts 5 years.
2. If they can’t replace it or service it in that time then the have to pay you the price of the item adjusted by use (linear value depreciation over time) and collect it from you at their cost.
3. Your contact is with the manufacturer directly and legally who have to set up a service system and contact centre before they can sell.
4. Manufacturer has to buy the item back from you at least 15% of the value for materials recycling at the end of the life.
MODE:You had me at "Right to Repair is a fucking scam". Can I have your robot babies...?
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I'll buy them, from your authorized supply chain, of course.
This is no less insidious than the "Recyclable Plastics" scam that has plagued all of humanity since the 70s; which, shockingly, was instigated by the Plastics Manufacturing cabal... the only difference is how many layers of
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obfuscate the guilty parties from public view.
If only there were some grassroots movement to combat all the
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... oh, right. there
was. The Hippie movement, which literally derived from "Hip to your BS", and tried to fight the global Military Industrial Complex Ike warned us aboot hand-to-hand.
Yeah, okay... they held onto the peace ideal a little too long, and let TPTB steamroller them in the press... but they were
right. The machine we have to worry aboot is not the robot on the assembly line; it is the political-industrial machine that we have created by allowing private, for-profit business owners the same protections from the consequences of their actions that we used to reserve only to the crown and our duly-elected government.
"The man" isn't the government... it is the mega-corporation engaged in a hostile corporate takeover of the once duly-elected governments of the entire planet.
mnem
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MODE