The legislation hasn't yet passed everywhere, but all 50 states introducing some form of right to repair legislation is a "tipping point” for the right to repair movement.
  • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    64·
    15 days ago

    Until pedo-prez and nazi-musk determines that it’s hurtful to gafam.

    Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.

    • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      15 days ago

      Sorry for becoming a cynical asshole, it’s actually a good news but I can’t help myself these days.

      Hope you’ll take this criticism as honestly given, and not meant as an attack, but you’re not improving the quality of Lemmy with these kind of posts.

      May I suggest, instead of making a comment and apologizing for it in the same comment, you just don’t make the comment at all?

      It really sucks having to push through these type of comments.

      This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

      • Yerbouti@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        26·
        15 days ago

        Yeah you’re probably right, I’ll try to shut to fuck up next time. It’s just that these asshole a ruining every god damn thing I believe in so I can’t help to think they’ll come for this too. Here I’m doing it again… I’ll go serve myself a huge glass of wine to celebrate this good news, it’s almost 5 anyway.

  • Fubarberry@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    14·
    15 days ago

    This is also nice because every state doesn’t have to pass this kind of law for it to help everyone else. Companies are often willing to have california specific models of their products to comply with California specific laws, but if enough states have right to repair laws it will hopefully be easier for companies to just have all their products be compliant.

  • meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    12·
    15 days ago

    A monumental win for repair warriors; corporate gatekeeping faces a well-deserved reckoning.

    😺😺😺😺😺

    • IllNess@infosec.pubEnglish
      15·
      15 days ago

      Also great for the environment. Replacing a part is significantly better than the waste products and energy used in recycling facilities.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
    7·
    15 days ago

    I need Louis Rossmanns input on this.

    These parasites love passing laws that hurt the taxpayer looking at you, ACA…

    • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      15 days ago

      More likely it will lose superpower status and just become a run-of-the-mill large size developed country like Britain or Germany.

      Living in a run-of-the-mill developed country isn’t actually bad - in fact the best places to live in the World in terms of median quality of life are all pretty run-of-the-mill places.

      Granted, judging by what I saw living in Britain, the whole post-Imperial hangover does screw things up significantly for a century or two compared to similar countries that were never top dog.

      • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
        1·
        14 days ago

        The British pedon has been driven into poverty quicker than American one…

        They got NHS at least tho

        • Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          14 days ago

          True.

          That said, British days as an Empire were almost a century ago whilst the US has been entering that phase for a decade or two at most.

          IMHO, the closer a country’s past as top dog is, the more wealth is still floating around from the old days and the less the local elites tend to squeeze the local peons to maintain their status, and the riches from the gold old days are a lot more depleted in Britain than in the US, whose currency is still the main reserve currency of the World (though less and less so since maybe 2 decades ago), which would explain why impoverishment of the average person was faster and deeper in Britain.