‘It has officially happened’: Mechanic says he can’t work on your car because they’ve officially been locked out of computer systems ( www.dailydot.com )
'The car companies want to put small guy out of business.'
iFixit ends self-repair collaboration with Samsung, because Samsung was not committed to it ( liliputing.com )
As revealed by iFixit, Samsung collaboration never worked well, with parts that were too expensive, and/or glued together (like a battery+screen replacement!)...
Samsung Requires Independent Repair Shops to Share Customer Data, Snitch on People Who Use Aftermarket Parts and Disassemble their Devices ( www.404media.co )
A leaked "independent" repair shop contract shows that Samsung requires them to give Samsung the name, contact information, phone identifier, and customer complaint details of everyone who gets their phone repaired at these shops,...
Kobo partners with iFixit to make new e-readers more repairable ( goodereader.com )
The partnership between Kobo and iFixit means the iFixit will provide official repair kits to fix the most common components like batteries, for newly produced readers (Libra Colour, Clara Colour and Clara BW,)...
Oregon Passes Right To Repair Law Apple Lobbied To Kill ( www.techdirt.com )
Oregon has officially become the seventh state (behind New York, California, Massachusetts, Colorado, Maine, and Minnesota) to pass “right to repair” legislation, making it easier and m…
Oregon is about to sign — or veto — the strongest right-to-repair law yet ( www.theverge.com )
So long, parts pairing?
Own your stuff. iFixit Requests FTC Rulemaking on Right to Repair. Public RFC Deadline is February 2nd. ( www.eff.org )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11175984...
[Louis Rossmann] Google supports right to repair? Think again. ( odysee.com )
tl:dw from [email protected]...
‘Smoking Gun’ Email That Killed Repairing McDonald's Ice Cream Machines ( www.wired.com )
Tldr from [email protected]...
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them ( www.404media.co )
The situation is a heavy machinery example of something that happens across most categories of electronics, from phones, laptops, health devices, and wearables to tractors and, apparently, trains. In this case, NEWAG, the manufacturer of the Impuls family of trains, put code in the train’s control systems that prevented them...
