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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by crowf on Monday January 25, 2021 @11:47PM (#25912669)
I fear that that will be "Californiaed" like with the prop 65 label. The intention was to inform the consumer if a product was dangerous, but due to California being California, that label is on basically every product and that label has now lost its meaning.
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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by hayksaakian on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @02:13AM (#25913351)
The equivalent for the california labels of "this might give you cancer" would be something like "you might be able to replace the battery"

At least I would hope the french scores / standards would be objective enough to be useful.

if california had a "cancer scale" or something it would be more useful than it is today. Maybe that lead paint is "grade a cancer" but your bed sheets are only a "grade d cancer" i dunno.

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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by andyfleming on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @12:06AM (#25912778)
I think a repairability label is less likely to get bucketed into yes or no. A score might be manipulated or skewed.

That said, something like a nutrition or privacy label might be a better fit. For example, if something has a battery, can it be replaced by the user or even replaced at all.

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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by syshum on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @06:48AM (#25914732)
The key to prevent that is to make it something like the IoT label [1] that has been proposed for several years

That was more around security of the devices, but I would like to see a label that covered 4 parameters

1. Security

2. Repariblity

3. Openness / Cloud Dependency / etc

4. Privacy

[1]https://www.cylab.cmu.edu/news/2020/05/27-iot-labels-consume...

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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by matkoniecz on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:01AM (#25913545)
It seems much easier to demonstrate repariability over "we are 100% sure that nothing in this product causes cancer or increases its risk".
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Re:Right to Repair off to the races in 2021 with 14 active s... by cowsandmilk on Tuesday January 26, 2021 @03:26AM (#25913652)
I view this as more similar to energystar in the us, where I can see efficiency of appliances. Or mandatory fuel economy labeling.
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