I’ll believe it when I see it. So far every right to repair compliance on their side has been met with bad faith circumventions. Like making tools available in theory but not actually.
- Repair manuals.
- Reasonably priced replacement parts.
- Give the owner a key to sign / certify any parts they want.
- Give the owner the ability to disable OTA updates.
- Give the government a key to sign / certify parts.
- Give the government the ability to review and delay OTA updates.
I don't want some mega corp in a foreign nation holding the means of food production hostage via parts serialization and DRM.
Fuck lenovo Europe for parts, nothing available for an X1 C6, so around 3-4y old. Had to buy on a customer website hoping for a genuine part. What was Lenovo answer to buy a replacement battery ? Send in your laptop to diagnostic a dead battery.
For a couple of years now I see laptops as consumables rather than as full members of the family of general purpose computers. If they break they are impossible to repair without special tools or sending them in so I just demolish them, pull out the storage device and shred it. The rest can then be safely turned in as electronics waste at the local depot.
It's pretty sad because replaceable batteries have been a thing in just about everything since I was a kid and the idea that laptops are somehow so special that we can't do it because they are thin is ridiculous to me. But apparently that's what the market wants.
> Give the government a key to sign / certify parts.
Bad idea. Very bad idea. We've already seen malware campaigns where governments actually stole signing credentials such as Stuxnet, where the creators managed to get their malware signed by Realtek and JMicron certificates [1].
