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Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up by sethj on Thursday September 28, 2017 @06:21PM (#15361257)
I have a Thinkpad T-430 and the thing's great. I can strip it down to just the motherboard and display in less than 5 minutes.
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Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up by takeda on Thursday September 28, 2017 @06:40PM (#15361371)
I don't know if suggesting a laptop from a company that uses DRM to lock out 3rd party batteries is something suitable in this thread.
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Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up by davidzweig on Thursday September 28, 2017 @10:35PM (#15362358)
You can 'fix' that at least: https://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ec
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Re:A “right to repair” movement tools up by TeMPOraL on Friday September 29, 2017 @01:17AM (#15362885)
I don't think there is a company on that market that doesn't do something anticonsumer. It's a "pick the least bad" problem.
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