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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Replacing the screen adhesive on an apple watch costs more than a new watch according to Apple! (youtu.be)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by Engineer@discuss.tchncs.de to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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Thankfully Jonathan was able to take it to an independent repair shop for a $75 CAD adhesive fix (and battery replacement?) despite Apple's restrictions against them.

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[–] And009@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 9 months ago

Anything android that has lineage or similar community support. It's not the same but you won't have your balls getting squeezed by apple