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This is a nice win for self-repair hardware rights.

For context, see their old video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uCpY3tFTIA

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

World on fire and there are people worried about repairing ice cream machines of an evil corporation and consider it a "victory". Depressing

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The right to repair in general is pretty significant.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Repairing things helps reduce the endless resource expediture and trash creation. Ice cream machines are just a random example. As you can read in the article they were going for much more, and more significant stuff, but got denied.