Re:California Right to Repair Signed into Law
by szundi on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @01:35PM
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Yes alarm systems are connected to fear of insurance fraud.
Although!
Right to repair does not forbid insurance companies to forbid it. But can I please repair my home alarm system, thanks.
Re:California Right to Repair Signed into Law
by derefr on Wednesday October 11, 2023 @01:39PM
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The problem is that it's impossible to tell that an alarm system has been repaired by a third party. For building repairs, we have building inspectors; but there's no such thing as a tiny-electronics-soldering-job inspector.
1. security certifications depending on these being present and functioning, and nobody's going to certify equipment with arbitrary third-party repairs; and
2. these devices always work only with some kind of subscription paid to a security company anyway, since the point of them is to send some signal to said company to get something to happen.
> I don't need a devil's advocate for what it's worth
Maybe you don't understand hierarchical commenting systems, but people mostly don't reply to comments on HN/Reddit/etc for the sake of engaging the parent poster in discussion; they do it for the sake of "transcluding" the parent poster's comment as the necessary context for understanding their own follow-on comment; where that follow-on comment is itself aimed at the same general audience of the comments that the top-level comments are aimed at.