Kevin Karhan 
@JessTheUnstill @GreenRoc Personally I wish for #RightToRepair to be mandated including access to #schematics, #parts, #firmware and #tools needed so #manufacturers would be forced to actually give a shit and build #RepairableTech...
- Then again the #PerverseIncentives of #capitalism punish #HonestMerchants and #RepairableDesign because manufacturers don't give a shit about supporting their devices and work against their interests of the buyers!
Remember: Most folks are mere #consumers, not #owners and espechally not #tinkerers!
- THIS is why #RaspberryPi were able to basically monopolize the #ARM - #SBC market for tinkerers because they are the only one's that actually build devices that just work out of the box and have #documentation, whereas all the competitors just fart out some PCBs and some hacked-up images and then tell people to 'go fuck themselves' when they don't want to just buy but do something with it!
JessπΎ (@[email protected])
And then you complain about it and some replyguys show up with a WeLl AkShUlLy you can build it yourself by taking this microcontroller and loading this specific software, and soldering it together with these various components and 3d printing a case and oh but the out of the box OS doesn't work right so you have to change these configuration and tweak the driver settings and ... @[email protected] @[email protected]