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@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

www.theverge.com

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Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

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@misk@sopuli.xyz to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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It’s the strongest right-to-repair law passed so far.
  • FenrirIII
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    I.e. Apple

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      • @ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
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        Is John deere exempt?

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          • @theneverfox@pawb.social
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            And what’s the alternative? You learn to maintain your own equipment and take operation of your powerful and dangerous tools into your own hands, like you do when operating it? You find a local mechanic, like you would with a car, plane, or boat? You keep using the same equipment without paying the manufacturer more until it deteriorates too much to repair?

            That’s insane. There’s not even a subscription involved, it’s deranged. Forget your rice, the shareholders need bigger made up numbers!

        • @supamanc@lemmy.world
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          Yep, according to the article, they have a strong enough lobby bribe machine to win exemption.

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        I feel like printers started it. Everyone I had used to setup came with some insane cable. Not to mention the actual cartridge

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          • BoscoBear
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            Capitalism != Unbridled_capitalism;

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              • BoscoBear
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                Any …ism devolves if unchecked.

                • @Cosmicomical@lemmy.world
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                  Yeah well let’s start checking it real quick

            • @Triasha@lemmy.world
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              In any single moment, that’s true, but over time they inevitably become one and the same.

              • BoscoBear
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                Everything, over time, becomes entropy.

                • @Triasha@lemmy.world
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                  1•1 year ago

                  Sure, but stars don’t decay before our eyes.

                  • BoscoBear
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                    1•1 year ago

                    But they do. The only constant is change.

      • @Leviathan@lemmy.world
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        It’s the legacy that stinky piece of shit Steve Jobs left behind. That, skirting foreign labor laws, treating your own child like shit and stabbing your friends in the back.

    • @KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      There are others. Apple wasn’t the first, nor the last, but they were the most notorious for sure.

    • @Empricorn@feddit.nl
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      Agreed. But other companies like Samsung and Google that dunked on Apple for their shitty practices, then completely adopt them a few generations later are fucking pathetic.

    • @MisterD@lemmy.ca
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      6•1 year ago

      Samsung

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