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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‘It has officially happened’: Mechanic says he can’t work on your car because they’ve officially been locked out of computer systems (www.dailydot.com)

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

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[–] [email protected] 64 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The reason is more likely that they want to avoid people enabling all the software features they disabled because you didn't take the super-premium-customer-comfort pack for 15$/month.

How do you expect car manufacturers to survive you anticapitalist swines! /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can't really do that with diagnostic tools, but you can change the vehicle mileage. I see a lot of cars coming from shady car lots with under 100k miles that look like they have over 300k on them.

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

Got any examples of this?

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

Like what? It's all readily available information, you can buy tools to do it off ebay and amazon.