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Bill to prevent repair of electronics
| And then there are people who dream of living in cyberpunk futures?
There is a saying that goes: Be careful of what you dream, it might as well become true.
| If I'm reading that correctly, it sounds like a bill that ensures you can repair electronics, instead of the irreplacible battery bs they have atm.
| >>129461
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Yeah, you have it backwards OP- The bill says that corporation's can't produce a product that *can't* be repaired by a third party.
>are prohibited from designing or manufacturing digital electronic products in such a way as to prevent reasonable diagnostic or repair functions by an independent repair provider
Translated into basic English: "You can't build a product that is designed to be difficult to repair,"
| E.G: >"Preventing reasonable diagnostic or repair functions includes permanently affixing a battery in a manner that makes it difficult or impossible to remove."
This would apply to basically all current smartphones- it means you can't make it impossible to replace the battery. This bill is actually a good thing.
| OP here.
Well yea you g/u/rls are right. I took it for the opposite of it all.
Small things in a language not my own make the entire difference. Not an apology but just admiting my mistake.
So cheers and thanks for pointing it out. ^^
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| "Original manufacturers of digital electronic products sold on or after January 1, 2019, in Washington state are prohibited from designing or manufacturing digital electronic products in such a way as to prevent reasonable diagnostic or repair functions by an independent repair provider," says the bill. "Preventing reasonable diagnostic or repair functions includes permanently affixing a battery in a manner that makes it difficult or impossible to remove."
In Washington State.