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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

Summary article from I Fix It

Summary video by Marques Brownlee

Great channel covering and advocating right to repair, Lewis Rossman

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Hyundai Paywalls Brake Pad Changes (hackaday.com)
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Changing the pads on your car’s brakes is a pretty straightforward and inexpensive process on most vehicles. However, many modern vehicles having electronic parking brakes giving manufacturers a new avenue to paywall simple DIY repairs.

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[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Linux on cars, when?

IDK man, I think cars have more than enough driver issues already...

[–] ZeDoTelhado@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago

I like a good pun when I see one