Does that apply to farm machinery too? https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/john_deere_right_to_repair_lawsuits/
Are you listening John Deere!
US President Joe Biden has weighed into the Right to Repair furore once more as sueballs fly over some alleged monopolistic practises by a well-known farming equipment manufacturer. While Biden did not mention John Deere by name in his tweet on the matter (preferring instead to offer plaudits to Apple and Microsoft for …
Does that apply to farm machinery too? https://www.theregister.com/2022/01/25/john_deere_right_to_repair_lawsuits/
Are you listening John Deere!
Repairability?
I'm more interested in a reasonable lifespan for portable device operating systems. We get the likes of Linux with years of support for LTS releases. We get Windows releases that live 7-10 years or more.
But Google? Apple? 3 years, give or take. Then you're left with a paperweight.
That is our big landfill issue, not the paltry few devices that need repairs.
be happy to see 6-8 tiny screws in the back of my smartphone and a handy 'lever here' tab so I can unseal the battery compartment and install a new battery. then a line of glue and 8 screws to lock it back up again.
Instead the method is hot air gun the phone, slide a thin plastic thing into the gap between the screen and the body, lever the screen out, hot air gun to the connector and remove screen completely, 12 tiny(and I mean tiny) screws to dismount the phone innards from the body, flip over, hot air gun the battery and disconnect.
Assembly is easy... follow the above instructions in reverse... and pray it still works when you switch on...
Guess another servicable phone is off to landfill :( good side though is that its 5 years old now
Quoting Blackadder:
"Not while Pitt the Elder's in charge. As long as his feet are warm and he gets a nice cup of milky tea in the sun before his morning nap, he doesn't bother anybody until his potty needs emptying..."
Any relevance of the above quote to the current POTUS is entirely in the mind of the reader.
Actually...
Apart from being a shill in congress for the credit card industry; and voting enthusiastically for every war that came along, Biden Senior is more responsible for the astounding increase in America's penal system --- banging up as many black people as his old racist mentors in congress hearts' could desire --- over the last 50 years than any other single individual.
Most quaint of all: he doubled the number of capital offences to nearly 100.
Someone that I don't recall sharing a viewpoint on right to repair.
Although I was more interested in the lack of wars he started, the energy self-sufficiency he supported, the economic growth and low inflation he enabled and the shelves he kept full.
Perhaps I should have focused on the mean tweets?
He's pretty hawkish nonetheless. The Mega raids were signed off by Biden when he was VP
Let's not forget:
In the overall scheme of things:
The Democrats are right wing
The Republicans are extreme right wing
MAGA are lunatics
Bernie is a centre right social democrat
Our North American readers have a distorted view of the world because the ENTIRE political spectrum in the USA is significantly right of centre