Companies Are Simply Ignoring Many New State ‘Right To Repair’ Laws
Companies Are Simply Ignoring Many New State ‘Right To Repair’ Laws
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/09/03/companies-are-simply-ignoring-many-new-state-right-to-repair-laws/
Last March Oregon became the seventh state to pass “right to repair” legislation making it easier, cheaper, and more convenient to repair technology you own. The bill’s passage …
Report: Consumer Hardware Still Often Impossible To Repair Despite New State ‘Right To Repair’ Laws
Report: Consumer Hardware Still Often Impossible To Repair Despite New State ‘Right To Repair’ Laws
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/05/report-consumer-hardware-still-often-impossible-to-repair-despite-new-state-right-to-repair-laws/
There’s been significant progress, but many popular consumer electronics brands are still building hardware that’s often impossible to repair despite a flood in new state “right t…
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Thanks to everyone who helped out on canvas!
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How find a DVR model ? CCTV
Hi,
I got an old DVR that I would like to use.
Unfortunately on the device itself, no brand, no model name !?
Any idea how can I find any documentation ?
Thanks.
The FTC is investigating PC manufacturers who scare you away from your right to repair
The FTC is investigating PC manufacturers who scare you away from your right to repair
https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/3/24191790/asrock-gigabyte-zotac-ftc-warranty-void-right-to-repair
Including but not limited to “warranty void if removed” labels.
Nether current nor planned EU laws protect from NEWAG-style antirepair practices applied to trains, trams, buses and other buisness equipment
Patrick Breyer (@echo_pbreyer@digitalcourage.social)
https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112716177887148583
Angehängt: 1 Bild 🇬🇧 🚆🔧 #StopKillingTrains! Not only computer games but entire trains are being arbitrarily disabled by their manufacturers. EU Commissioner Breton now admits that EU law doesn‘t protect us. We finally need a full #RightToRepair and a #RightToModify the devices we bought! #Pirates https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/stopkillingtrains-mep-calls-for-rules-against-the-arbitrary-disabling-of-devices-by-manufacturers/
I'm Conflicted
I have a Pixel 4a (with Calyx) for a few years already (start of 2021) and it's still going great. The battery is okay. Everything works nice. It's smooth. It runs everything perfectly fine.
This makes me glad to see that hardware wise this phone was really built to last, I can't even count how many times I dropped it so hard that I was scared to see the damage (which was always either nothing or a broken screen protector)
But software wise I'm screwed as security updates are already gone from Google and I only get the extended support from Calyx which will also end soon.
Now I'm forced to choose between having a phone that is insecure or buying a new one.
So thanks Google for the high quality hardware, but what's up with this software planned obsolescence??
I know this isn't exactly right to repair, but it also kind of is because if Google decided to ditch the 4a, they should be forced to open source the software so that the public can actually repair it.
I'm sure that some of their latest updates can be modified slightly to work for the 4a, but they don't care and for them this is a win-win since they don't have to maintian support and they get new customers who would otherwise be satisfied with an "old" phone.
What happened to the days when an old phone meant a phone that was already crumbling to pieces, and not a fully functional computer that is slightly older then a toddler?