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.

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Teufel has developed a bluetooth speaker with a focus on longevity and repairability, with open-source schematics. Here the developers talk about the motivation and obstacles (www-heise-de.translate.goog)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by Novocirab@feddit.org to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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The link above is a translation of this German article.

The price of the speaker in question ("MYND") currently is 230€ on the company website.

The schematics can be found under this same link, under "Downloads & support".

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[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

The pop up on the original German page is fucking toxic. No. You don’t get any consent to send my shit to your marketing partners. Ffs

[–] Novocirab@feddit.org 7 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Yeah, and being a tech site they really know how to block out any of the usual ways to circumvent it (reaload-and-aboard, archive.ph, ...). Their articles are very good though. One of the reasons I set up a keyboard shortcut for TOR. (Sadly I haven't yet figured out how to create a shortcut (on KDE) that opens TOR right at the URL in my clipboard, to open such webpages in quarantine with absolute minimum effort... maybe via x/ydotool. For the time being, I'm content with making the TOR launcher available in $PATH via ln -s /home/username/somefolder/tor-browser_de/Browser/start-tor-browser tor, so that I can open krunner, type 'tor' and paste the clipboard content there.)