On: New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill

[hutzlibu]

I like the idea of mature, self-responsible people.

Who can be trusted to make decisions by themself.

And the right to repair aims not, that everyone should fix their devices by themself, but that everyone who is capable, has the possibility to do so. Like repair shops. Or skilled individuals. And those who think they are more competent, than they actually are ... find always ways of shooting themself in the foot. I would not want to punish everyone else because of it.

[hughrr → hutzlibu]

I think if you look at the actual current state of the repair industry it’d scare you off the idea fairly quickly. There are very few competent people and even fewer business where competence is promoted.

I’m going to slap Rossman here as well who does some pretty scary hack jobbery and passes it off as a fit for purpose repair rather than a data recovery last resort.

[hutzlibu → hughrr]

Well, I know my part of bad stories, too.

But I think, with removing barriers, the repair industry should improve and rather decline.

[hughrr → hutzlibu]

Perhaps I’m old and cynical but we’ll see if that actually occurs. I admire your optimism though :)

[ClumsyPilot → hutzlibu]

If the world wad run by mature responsible people then we wouldnt have the issues of e-waste, more plastic than fish in the ocean and climate change.

Systemic problems require systemic solutions that achieve results in the real world, not just ideal one