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I am so sick of this shit. Companies used to provide schematics with their products so you could fix it yourself if you had to. Now if you show someone how to do it online they might SUE you. I am sure you remember this too.

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>A little over a year ago, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on-board diagnostic systems and provide remote access to those systems and mechanical data to consumers and third-party independent repair shops. But as we’ve seen with other states that have passed right to reform laws (most notably New York), passing the law isn’t the end of the story. Corporate lobbyists have had great success not just watering these laws down before passage, but after voters approve them. They’ve also been swarmed by coordinated industry lawsuits and falsehood-spewing attacks.

I am so sick of this shit. Companies used to provide schematics with their products so you could fix it yourself if you had to. Now if you show someone how to do it online they might SUE you. @stupidbird I am sure you remember this too. Archive: https://archive.today/wUnwZ From the post: >>A little over a year ago, Maine residents voted overwhelmingly (83 percent) to pass a new state right to repair law designed to make auto repairs easier and more affordable. More specifically, the law requires that automakers standardize on-board diagnostic systems and provide remote access to those systems and mechanical data to consumers and third-party independent repair shops. But as we’ve seen with other states that have passed right to reform laws (most notably New York), passing the law isn’t the end of the story. Corporate lobbyists have had great success not just watering these laws down before passage, but after voters approve them. They’ve also been swarmed by coordinated industry lawsuits and falsehood-spewing attacks.

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My bigger problem is that Apple actively forces contracts on part's producers to make it so they are not allowed to sell the parts to ANYONE but apple. They also make it "illegal" for 3rd party's to have access to software that can pair sensors like the "lid closed" sensor cannot be paired if you replace it so shops are forced to try to "fix" a broken sensor than replace it with a part that works fine.

Apple is really bad for this shit which is why I used them as an example. There are probably over a hundred videos by Louis Rossmann showing the bullshit they do to make sure that a "repair" is damn near impossible and you are forced to buy a new motherboard because that is where they can get some extra profit.

In this case, all they have to do is not force a manufacture to not sell to 3rd parties and not keep the calibration tools under NDA. That is it. This is a scam.

Fuck them.

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Absolutely. The supply chain is rotten. They should not be allowed to lock out third party repairs.