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I figured that right to repair is a topic many of us are interested in. The survey below by ISED Canada, a department of the Government of Canada, is open until September 26, 2024.

Canadians can provide their input at the following link: https://ised-isde.survey-sondage.ca/f/s/RTR

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Cue manufactures: "we can't make parts or manuals available because [safety/cyber/copyright/patent/think of the children]"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

I wish it was possible to stab corporations over the internet. I've been maintaining an almost 40 year old set of home appliances since inheriting them 15 years ago and they are hardly dangerous with some basic internet learned information. Except for the microwave maybe... Newer appliances haven't really changed much either. They just break more and have costly proprietary parts that don't even work as well. We had sensor dry laundry 4 decades ago and it works better to this day. The work laundry is new and stupidly expensive yet has had 4 sensor swaps, a primary circuitboard swap, 3 lint traps swapped, and a lint trap slot outer molding swap pending. The old dryer lint trap is literally a rectangle of mesh with twice the cm² and has never broken. Bosch dishwasher has a soap tray that for some reason needed to slide open and closed instead of the traditional latch and it keeps failing open so the soap gets washed away first phase. The old one I don't even know what brand it is because the exterior is worn right down but the parts are all generic and anything that looks the same and fits will probably work and has so far.

These fuckers are doing it on purpose and they should pay for it.