this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
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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

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Summary video by Marques Brownlee

Great channel covering and advocating right to repair, Lewis Rossman

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Replaceable batteries may came back.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

The comments under the video are so uneducated thats crazy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Now we just need all batteries to be swappable as easily as a T480 (5 seconds) to get almost infinite battery life on everything.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you! This is great news, that's for compiling sources!