FluxJul 30, 2023

I'm pinning this to my profile. Feel free to do the same.

Originally from: iFixit
Licensed under: Creative Commons "BY-NC-SA" https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/

EDIT: added further text, crediting iFixit (I didn't expect this to be shared as much and want provide extra credit), added the new version, alt text from @Hawkwinter and added details about the license

Creative Commons — Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported — CC BY-NC-SA 3.0

Show threadSaria
@Flux @Hawkwinter This is cool, and there is one more important right that comes along with a right to repair that isn’t mentioned: the right to know what’s in your equipment.

If you have the right, and the ability, to fix a piece of equipment, it becomes much harder, if not impossible, for the manufacturer to hide things in it that do not need to be there. If you can open a device, and know what every component in it does, you will know which parts of it are only there for a nefarious purpose, such as spying on you, or cripple the device to force you to buy a new one or upgrade.
Aug 6, 2023 at 2:05amWeb
Show threadFluxAug 6, 2023

@saria
We need to ensure that right to repair regulation provides an easy means of auditing, modifying, getting access to, sharing and selling source code that comes with the device or is needed to run and to make full use of it after x amount of years (4 sounds reasonable as it's enough time that most devices would end their support by and enough that the company can benefit from getting ahead but quick enough so it doesn't take forever for the public)

And no trivoization should be allowed