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New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act tak (www.nporadio1.nl)
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The products covered by the obligation to repair currently include:

  • washing machines and washer-dryers
  • dishwashers
  • refrigerators
  • electronic displays
  • welding equipment
  • servers and data storage products
  • mobile phones, cordless phones and tablets
  • tumble dryers 
  • e-bikes and e-scooters batteries (from 18 February 2027)
  • local space heaters
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[–] 132 points 1 month ago (19 children)

Interesting things that are not on the list:

  • Farming equipment
  • Motor and electric vehicles
  • Computers (including laptops)
  • Video game consoles
  • HVAC systems and equipment

Not sure if smart TVs fall under "electronic displays", or if they just mean commercial displays when they say that.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 month ago

    not yet ! we hope !

    John deer tractor lost a case that became famous in my rural area (and elsewhere). It now have to let repair shop acces the tools and allow repair on its tractors.

    I take the win ! And we continue to push forward in talks, petitions, actions and repairs (autorised or else) Support and/or use open source.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago

    Farming equipment is a particularly annoying one, that and construction vehicles, are becoming increasingly locked down by proprietary software and impossible to maintain yourself. You can't even employ mechanics outside the dealer network in some instances and it will be more so in the future.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    microwave ovens..

    in fact, make that all kitchen appliances.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    I guess maybe microwaves are not on the list because they have big meaty capacitors that could be holding a charge still?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Considering the videos on youtube about creators disassembling and modifying them and the warnings creators like styropyro and The king of random did...I don't think they should be serviced by the regular joe. Or the dangerous parts should be sealed of from the boring stuff like the buttons (e.g. door opener) so one trained technicians can reach it but the hurdle is big enough for normies.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (9 children)

    What exactly do you think you’d be able to easily repair on a video game console?

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Broken ports, replace hard drive, replace memory, no software locks so custom software can keep it alive, replace battery (on a Switch for example).

    Lots of thing right to repair could do for consoles.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Video consoles are either desktop computers with proprietary parts, or tablets with proprietary parts. There is nothing especially difficult to repair in them compared to the rest of their categories.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago*

    Well how about mobile phone, laptop or a tablet?

    I'm not seeing easy written anywhere, it can still be done by experts but the idea I feel would be that its overall possible to accomplish by a third party.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    Consoles are just computers now.

    People repair those all the time.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

    Yes and no. Yes in terms of architecture, no in terms of repairability and design. How many computers have a SoC with soldered RAM? How many computers don’t let you upgrade the cpu or GPU? Good luck trying to repair the GPU or cpu or ram or SSD on a modern console. It’s just not feasible. Not because they don’t want you to, but because of how intricate and specialised they are. The parts that you could repair on a console are already easily repair/replaceable.

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