Hey we voted for that shit, fuck off!!
Right to Repair
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.
Summary video by Marques Brownlee
Great channel covering and advocating right to repair, Lewis Rossman
I wasn't aware of this. I have another thing to add to my list to monitor.
And do what if they inevitably win?
they being the automotive industry or the citizens who voted overwhelmingly for it?
If the automotive industry wins (unlikely as they are arguing a fight that the Attorney General has failed to classify an independent entity, which the AG can somewhat easily remedy), I plan to reach out to my states representatives (I'm sure they are getting REALLY sick of me because I'm already sending almost weekly emails due to other issues with the state), in hopes that they can remedy the bill back into something that the people voted for, and not something that big business voted for.
If the auto industry loses: I plan to wait a bit for the implementation of the law to go into effect, then I plan to download the tools given for my current car that the automotive industry is required to provide. If said tools are not available I intend to report the company as non-compliant. These tools are not considered unreasonable by any means, and /should/ already be available for mechanics as part of their every day working of the vehicles. There is zero reason for diagnostic tools for a vehicle I own to be locked behind either a paywall or be restricted to only licensed techs. That is against right to repair as a whole.
Honestly though, what is likely to happen is, the enforcement of the law will be paused until the AG can place an independent party responsible, and then they will revisit the issue when the automotive companies inevitably refuse to assign a person to the party. Which will then go into a whole different can of worms with state fines to the companies refusing to be compliant.
You know we can't talk about that. It's like Bruno.
Modern vehicles suck. There is literally time bombs in every single one in the shape of a required part that is plastic, rubber, cheap alloy cast, or a mix of all three that WILL fall apart in your car in the next 10yrs, it WILL cost close to $2000 to repair, and if you can't the car loses a massive portion of it's value for resale. Right to repair is a far cry from fixing the siphoning of resources from the average person, but it is definitely a step in the right direction. No surprise corporations would be against lower repair bills when they literally set their budget against the repairs they know you will need. Here is an example: Mini Coopers, the water pump is cooled by radiator fluid, if the fluid gets low enough for the car to overheat the water pump dies immediately because it sits below the level where the engine starts to over heat. There is no dummy light, there is no gauge to tell you your coolant is low. You yourself could fix this with an aftermarket temperature sensor that you position connected to the water pump so if the water pump itself starts to overheat you get an alarm from the sensor, but Mini Cooper will never allow their engineers to put a temp sensor there, or even a low fluid sensor, because when that pump goes out a mini service center is getting around $1500-$2k. Literally the only warning you may get prior to the water pump dying is the faint smell of radiator fluid. Right to repair is not where this fight should be at, we should be passing laws forcing corporations to use quality engineering.
Add some line breaks dude. Nobody wants to read a wall of text.
To add to this:
You can have double spaces
at the end of lines
so you can write like this.
Paragraphs require double lines.
Like this.
And yet here you are ranting about them when all you could’ve done was buy a used 2005 car.
and yet you participate in society, curious
Participating in society != buying newer and newer shit
The US has a shitload of millionaires. The most common way they got rich was owning a car dealership. That's obscene.