‘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.'
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'The car companies want to put small guy out of business.'
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...
A group representing L. Ron Hubbard asked the Copyright Office to alter a repair exemption that makes it legal to hack Scientology's E-Meter—and lots of other electronics, too.
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 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…
So long, parts pairing?
As revealed by iFixit, Samsung collaboration never worked well, with parts that were too expensive, and/or glued together (like a battery+screen replacement!)...
Tesla released the service manuals for their original Roadster yesterday, pretty rare to come across any kind of service manual nowadays. Great for R2R!...
Let's hope they actually mean it. It could be cheaper than having different skews, but it's good news nevertheless.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11175984...
Polish article...
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,...
tl:dw from helenslunch@feddit.nl...
They had a talk space yesterday night at Chaos Communication Congress. These three guys are modern heroes....
Tldr from lawrence@lemmy.world...
In a forceful, 89-page memorandum, U.S. District Court Judge Iain Johnson wrote that the founder of John Deere “was an innovative farmer and blacksmith who—with his own hands—fundamentally changed the agricultural industry.” Deere the man “would be deeply disappointed in his namesake corporation” if the plaintiffs...
Full text of the ballot initiative: https://ballotpedia.s3.amazonaws.com/images/2/21/Right_to_Repair_Leg_FINAL.pdf
iFixit tears down a Taylor ice cream machine and finds that it overheats often, takes hours to restart, and these issues are impossible to fix because of locked down software and terrible error messages. No wonder, since Taylor makes 25% of its money charging $315 per 15 minutes for their exclusive repairs....
Replaceable batteries may came back.
Fix tons of things from macbooks to trucks to cameras. I think they have something like a hundred thousand guides....