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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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'The car companies want to put small guy out of business.'

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[–] CaptDust 112 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

2024 Ram 3500, but it's an industry push from NASTF so probably more will come soon.

[–] huskypenguin 70 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fuck these guys. If we live in a car society we need to be able to repair cars.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

That's treating people as Humans. But in our capitalist hellscape, we aren't people, we're Consumers. We exist to provide money to companies, and they're ever interested in finding more ways to make us give them money.

It's not enough that you buy a TV, the manufacturer needs to have ads in it. They need the telemetry on what you watch, when you watch it, and for how long so they can make the ads more relevant. We can't have you replacing your phone battery, so we'll make it an internal component so when it goes bad you're more likely to just get a new phone.

But we can't pay people more, because that's an expense.

The line must go up at all costs.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I knew before I even clicked in it would be some shitbox by Chrysler.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I don't understand how people keep buying rams. They're just such pieces of shit.

Edit: make that Dodges.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Shit goes by many names, but it's still shit.