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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Replacing the screen adhesive on an apple watch costs more than a new watch according to Apple! (youtu.be)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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Thankfully Jonathan was able to take it to an independent repair shop for a $75 CAD adhesive fix (and battery replacement?) despite Apple's restrictions against them.

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[–] pop@lemmy.ml 11 points 9 months ago

If you haven't noticed, these posts that steer the discussion in another direction are always attempt to defuse the blame. If you've ever been on reddit, you'll notice people trying really hard to shift blame, change goal posts, point fingers. And they're always highly upvoted.

It's social media PR management 101. You just need a bot farm and you can bet every marketing company does this for anyone that pays.