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

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Stolen e-bike batteries could soon be worthless, if only Bosch were less greedy (www.theverge.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/29515358

A subscription anti-theft feature that should be free.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This crap goes against right to repair. Serialization of parts is bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

Yeah, this feels more like preventing third party batteries from working. An average shady shop can definitely hotwire this.