On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 14:13:58 -0500
Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> Way too many phones are glued together instead of using screws these days.
> Incredibly annoying given often you can buy a new screen or battery for
> a decent price, but the work to actually replace it is insane.
Lennart,
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On 03/05/2019 12:23 PM, Lennart Sorensen via talk wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 07:16:52PM -0500, Don Tai via talk wrote:
>> who repairs anything these days? I don't know anyone else, besides myself
>> that is curious enough to even open the case. Or use a multimeter. Or
>> sewing machine. Repai
On Tue, Mar 05, 2019 at 01:10:30PM -0500, Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
> A while back I took my ASUS phone to ASUS to see about repair.
>
> Repairing the phone was going to cost me about 2/3 the cost of a new ASUS
> phone.
Way too many phones are glued together instead of using screws these days.
That's another thing that right to repair advocates are talking about.
Devices need to be designed to be repairable, which would make them a
bit bigger and a bit more expensive and this is the hardest part of
right to repair advocacy -- where government should force the
corporations to make d
A while back I took my ASUS phone to ASUS to see about repair.
Repairing the phone was going to cost me about 2/3 the cost of a new
ASUS phone.
Not like the repair of a 20,000 car where the repair cost runs from a
few hundred to a few thousand.
I think the right of repair is a good idea but
On Mon, Mar 04, 2019 at 07:16:52PM -0500, Don Tai via talk wrote:
> who repairs anything these days? I don't know anyone else, besides myself
> that is curious enough to even open the case. Or use a multimeter. Or
> sewing machine. Repair is a fringe, hippie thing now.
Is that because no one wants
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 7:17 PM Don Tai via talk wrote:
> who repairs anything these days?
>
"Right to repair" is also (or perhaps, more) targeted towards 3rd party
repair shops, allowing them access to the parts, tools and documents
required to fix your device, giving you the ability to not have t
