There are manufacturers that explicitly encourage repairability, right? Lenovo? Any others?
NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
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#42For those of us that cannot stand listening to Louis babble on, is there a concise summary written somewhere?
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#43For those of us that cannot stand listening to Louis babble on, is there a concise summary written somewhere?
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#44I believe the analysis. Here in Canada, the government passed a law not that long ago (during the pandemic) to enshrine rights of passengers for delayed and cancelled flights, which included right to specific amounts of monetary compensation in those scenarios. The law, however, had an exception, where no compensation is due if the flight is delayed or cancelled due to a safety issue. Lo and behold, the airlines have started classifying almost every delay and cancellation as a safety issue [1] and denying compensation claims left and right.
[1] Here is an example of how ridiculously far the airlines have gone in claiming everything is a safety issue, even when it is things completely within their power to control: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/air-canada-denies-compensatio...
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#45For those of us that cannot stand listening to Louis babble on, is there a concise summary written somewhere?
The bill originally was going to make available to customers and independent service centers the same parts and manuals that manufacturer repair centers have. The governor edited the bill slightly in a way that makes it almost useless now. It was edited to say that manufacturers don't have to provide parts if they think that there's a safety issue. They can just make a "full assembly" available rather than individual parts. This means that if you have a $800 device, and a $10 part can fix it, but the manufacturer decides that it's a "safety issue" to sell anything less than a $700 "motherboard assembly" then this negates the entire purpose of right to repair. He says "this bill allows for malicious compliance in a way that makes it functionally useless".
Re: NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
#46I believe the analysis. Here in Canada, the government passed a law not that long ago (during the pandemic) to enshrine rights of passengers for delayed and cancelled flights, which included right to specific amounts of monetary compensation in those scenarios. The law, however, had an exception, where no compensation is due if the flight is delayed or cancelled due to a safety issue. Lo and behold, the airlines have…
Surely these are engineered in cooperation with corporations so that politicians can get their win with the electorate and eat their corporate cash too?
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#47For those of us that cannot stand listening to Louis babble on, is there a concise summary written somewhere?
He doesn't babble that much in this one, it's just a brief interview.
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#48Shameless plug, the organization Louis (and I) work for, FUTO, is hosting a fellowship program sponsoring people to work on open-source software for three months for $20k-$80k and free housing in Austin. Applications are due Jan 1st!
Re: NY Sabotages Right to Repair Bill [video]
#49For folks wondering how the late changes to the bill happened, you can see who funded the lobby efforts here: https://reports.ethics.ny.gov/publicquery/AssociatedFilings/...
This is an awesome resource, but I'm left wondering how to interpret the data. For instance I see that Microsoft paid for a bunch of lobbying for a bunch of things, and it's clear they had 2 meetings with NY Senators and Executive staff about S 4104. What I don't see is what they were advocating for. Are they for or against it? Did they push some language that would benefit them in the long run? All I can see so far is that they were at the table. I haven't seen the video just yet but I'm sure Louis will break it down.
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#50What is the justification for being able to change the terms after the votes have taken place?
Right? That seems pretty antithetical to democracy. At least where I live, when the senate doesn't like a bill, they send it back to Parliament with recommendations. They can't just tack on whatever they feel like and ascend it from there.
Seems pretty typical of a republic though.