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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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'The car companies want to put small guy out of business.'

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago
[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Can you not press both buttons?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago (1 children)

This guy knows dodge.

For the uninformed: hemi engines have a massive engineering flaw. Never buy a hemi.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

What is the massive engineering flaw?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

The camshaft is prone to failure.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The reason is more likely that they want to avoid people enabling all the software features they disabled because you didn't take the super-premium-customer-comfort pack for 15$/month.

How do you expect car manufacturers to survive you anticapitalist swines! /s

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can't really do that with diagnostic tools, but you can change the vehicle mileage. I see a lot of cars coming from shady car lots with under 100k miles that look like they have over 300k on them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Like what? It's all readily available information, you can buy tools to do it off ebay and amazon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You can just buy aftermarket tools from Eastern Europe that don't have such nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Do you hear it? The sound of parlamentarism!

[–] [email protected] 35 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The auto industry is full of POS bullies. Everytime one for them goes into another industry they are totally turds and mess everything up then leave cause no one likes them and they pissed off vendors.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I heard that called seagull management. Swoop in, make a lot of noise, shit everywhere, then leave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

Using that at work. Very accurate.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 4 months ago

Some argued that the new requirements were to protect cars from theft.

Car thieves: Oh noeeees… anyway 🤷

[–] [email protected] 26 points 4 months ago

Oh

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That's 21st century ownership rights

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