Ars TechnicaOregon governor signs nation’s first right-to-repair bill that bans parts pairing
Starting in 2025, devices can't block repair parts with software pairing checks.
Erik Riffle (he/him)@arstechnica finally some good news for once
(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️🌈@arstechnica This won't survive a court challenge!
Linus@jann @arstechnica east coast loser mindset 💀BORN TO ENSHITIFY / TECH WORLD IS A FUCK / Foss Em all 25 February 1989 / I am trash man / 410,757,864,530 DEAD TECH BROS
Merle, Queen of Crime, Prince of Birds@arstechnica
We need more of this!
We need more of this!
Greg Bell@arstechnica I wonder how vendors will replace the security guarantees they'll lose. Maybe Some kind of post-boot warning along with a way to pair all the new installed parts.
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tomiant@arstechnica I thought sanity was dead.
Marcin Juszkiewicz 🙃@arstechnica I hope that it will end in other way than "the state where you cannot buy Apple products".
LambdaDuck@hrw @arstechnica that seems unlikely. it’s too big a market to miss out on compared to the losses from extra repairs instead of buying new
Anton Piatek@arstechnica does an ink cartridge count?
Renato Ramonda@arstechnica I see many Apple/HP comments but the real target here, I suspect, is John Deere.
Remember the stories about Ukrainian hacked farm tractor firmwares used in US farms? The reason was to circumvent parts pairing that made repairing them impossible without an official tech installing them.
EDIT: see the reply to this toot; apparently farm equipment is excluded. Missed opportunity.
Derek Ledbetter@renatoram @arstechnica John Deere is not the target, because the bill exempts farm equipment.
@Derek_Ledbetter @arstechnica ah, missed opportunity then (and/or very effective bribes)
Whitepaws &🏳️🌈🇳🇱@arstechnica Does this mean that Microsoft can no longer disable your Windows if you upgrade your computer?
matty matty bang bang@arstechnica @ruawhitepaw doubt it. this is about companies like apple doing things like bricking your phone when it detects a third party battery. what windows is doing is keying your installation to certain HWIDs to prevent you from swapping the hard drive into a new computer because the license you bought only applies to one computer. I imagine windows hardware locks will have to be addressed in a different way. I could be totally wrong though 🤷
LPS@arstechnica
So amazing!!
So amazing!!
Maverynthia🌱This means ink cartridges too right?
Alex Rosenberg@arstechnica That pretty much outlaws every game console. Great job, everybody!
Cliff Maier@alexr @arstechnica Oregon, where all drugs are legal but calibrated subcomponents are not.
@cmaier @arstechnica “All drugs”*
* except decongestant that actually works.