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Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by me-vs-cat on Saturday April 29, 2023 @11:23PM (#35759427)
Easily-repairable-by-the-inexperienced is quite different from only-repairable-through-manufacturer-authorization.

Would you say a car is not repairable because it takes experience and several hundred dollars worth of equipment just to get to the affected part?

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Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by Robotbeat on Saturday April 29, 2023 @11:50PM (#35759555)
...I mean yeah, kinda? Reparability is a spectrum.
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Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by vkou on Sunday April 30, 2023 @03:42AM (#35760416)
Depends. If changing a tire required taking my car into the dealership that sold it, I'd call it unrepairable.

If something like that were required for dealing with a broken transmission, that would be something else.

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Re:Microsoft quietly supported legislation to make it easier... by generalizations on Sunday April 30, 2023 @04:16PM (#35766222)
> Easily-repairable-by-the-inexperienced is quite different from only-repairable-through-manufacturer-authorization.

Yep. And a 7/10 score (IIRC) used to indicate easily-repairable-by-the-inexperienced.

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