Minnesota Passes Right to Repair

Re:Minnesota Passes Right to Repair by skyyler on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:06PM (#36127426)

>covers all electronics except video game consoles, cars, medical devices, cybersecurity tools, and farm and construction equipment.

This seems like it explicitly doesn't cover the things that were most important to cover, namely farm equipment and medical devices (that story about cochlear implants from last week comes to mind).

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Re:Minnesota Passes Right to Repair by aio2 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @01:21PM (#36127612)

Do laptops and desktops count as 'cyber security' tools? Otherwise, this feels worthless

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Re:Minnesota Passes Right to Repair by etskinner on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:34PM (#36129484)

This might be a "don't let perfect be the enemy of good" situation. It might be that it was too politically risky to include those categories, so they did the next best thing.

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Re:Minnesota Passes Right to Repair by givemeethekeys on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:26PM (#36130261)

> too politically risky

Is there legislation that isn't politically risky but worth passing?

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Re:Minnesota Passes Right to Repair by m463 on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @04:29PM (#36130307)

yes, play the long game

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Re:Minnesota Passes Right to Repair by JohnFen on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:03PM (#36131581)

So it's far too soon to celebrate.

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Re:Minnesota Passes Right to Repair by skyyler on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @07:05PM (#36132350)

I think it's okay to celebrate a small victory, but it's also important to remember that we're not done yet, and won't be for a while.

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