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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To buy no longer means anything. (youtu.be)

submitted 8 months ago by matmarspace@programming.dev to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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I’ve just watched the video. I find it pretty outrageous. The word about it should spread.

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[–] ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Funnily enough I've been talking to Microsoft since the first announcement, asking them for a refund for (now) locking me out of a game I paid for.

It has not gone well unfortunately, Microsoft really do not give two shits about the consumer, so long as they can milk you for all the data your worth and charge you for the privilege.

Might be petty, but I won't buy a Xbox or another Microsoft game until they give my Minecraft/$20 back. I guess I'm a pirate