Your phone breaks.
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@EUCommission sometimes repairing and improving longetivity also means being able to install your own software.
It would be great if the EU could forbid locking boot loaders of general purpose computing devices like smart phones, tablets, and laptops.
While we are at it, also require an alternative to Google/Apple remote attestation, so that we can still run our apps on repaired devices, or even better, European devices like Jolla's Sailfish OS phones.
@danieldk @EUCommission
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty ends
Parts must be available after the model is no longer sold
Choose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverage
An EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission why did you not take a washing machine as an exsample? please explain how it works? You clearly put an end to Washing machines under 300 Euro. Or will my friendly #DHL take it to the repair shop? You know that im home rpair already charge for just showing up? haha well, congratulations for choosing a phone as exsample, a laptop would already be near impossible (if you can use a calculator)
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission
the AI-slopped graphic makes no sense.
> Should I Toss My Broken Tech - Do I hate money - YES - A bit! -
Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission now every company has a great reason to make your everyday electrical stuff really expensive
"You know... we need more skilled stuff, a location to fix things, and we need to store 100000 spare parts, you don't want to wait for shipping, do you? "
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu what the hell is this flowchart?
let's say i hate money. then, it reads:
should i toss my broken tech? a bit!
??? that's not the correct shaped answer to that question.
"am I a billionaire" with no/maybe? billionaires don't care about right to repair; they can easily afford to get a new one . why are they even on this chart. what kind of answer is "maybe". and why is the option of going to a "cheap" repair shop under this non-negative answer to billionaire? do non-billionaires not get to go to a repair shop? do poor people have to repair it themselves, with their own personal expertise?
also, the remaining two branches, while decent to demonstrate the intent here for how to reduce waste.... also are not shaped like "should i toss my broken tech?" . none of the answers are shaped like that.. the question should read more like "what to do with broken tech?" or just "my tech is broken". then, the "repair it"/"fix it" branches make sense.
both of those branches make sense in isolation but together are strange because repairing something and fixing it is the same thing!!! those words are synonyms!!! the warranty branch should specify "manufacturer repairs it for free + 1 year of warranty" and the other branch should be "buy parts up to 10 years and repair it yourself". the "billionaire" question should say "do you have tech repair knowledge?" and the other branch should say "take it to a repair shop, who will buy the parts and fix it for you".
some others have pointed this out, and i too will ask: is this AI-generated?? because this sure smells like slop. it is not very coherent. -
@danieldk @EUCommission
There are already more alternatives for phones with alternative OS besides Jolla. Nothing for example.@Catha @EUCommission Nothing phones use Google Android (with system-level Play Services, etc.). Some Nothing Phones have unlockable boot loaders though, like Fairphone and Google Pixel.
However, if you install non-GMS Google Android, you are in for an increasing amount of pain, since more and more apps start using Google Play Integrity. E.g. some banks, the Volkswagen app, and ironically the EUDI Wallet reference implementation. Yes, you cannot use the EU wallet on a phone with an non-US OS!
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission very good, but did you really have to use genAI to make this post?
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission How about pouring 30B into this rather than pissing it away on AI bolllocks?
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission This has got to be a troll account.
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu what the hell is this flowchart?
let's say i hate money. then, it reads:
should i toss my broken tech? a bit!
??? that's not the correct shaped answer to that question.
"am I a billionaire" with no/maybe? billionaires don't care about right to repair; they can easily afford to get a new one . why are they even on this chart. what kind of answer is "maybe". and why is the option of going to a "cheap" repair shop under this non-negative answer to billionaire? do non-billionaires not get to go to a repair shop? do poor people have to repair it themselves, with their own personal expertise?
also, the remaining two branches, while decent to demonstrate the intent here for how to reduce waste.... also are not shaped like "should i toss my broken tech?" . none of the answers are shaped like that.. the question should read more like "what to do with broken tech?" or just "my tech is broken". then, the "repair it"/"fix it" branches make sense.
both of those branches make sense in isolation but together are strange because repairing something and fixing it is the same thing!!! those words are synonyms!!! the warranty branch should specify "manufacturer repairs it for free + 1 year of warranty" and the other branch should be "buy parts up to 10 years and repair it yourself". the "billionaire" question should say "do you have tech repair knowledge?" and the other branch should say "take it to a repair shop, who will buy the parts and fix it for you".
some others have pointed this out, and i too will ask: is this AI-generated?? because this sure smells like slop. it is not very coherent.@sodiboo @EUCommission remember europe is the “AI continent” so anything goes
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission People shall be allowed to repair their stuff and show how to do so to public.
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
Impoter: "I need spare parts for last years model!"
Chinese: "But it is YOU that always wants NEW design... so NO parts here!?!"
#righttorepair #China #EU #import #Wirtschaftswachstum #design
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@sodiboo @EUCommission remember europe is the “AI continent” so anything goes
@hsza @sodiboo @EUCommission Flow charts will be so much better when the centrally planned and tax funded
AI gIgAfAcToRiEs are up and running -
Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission how long until this is scrapped again due to German butt aches?
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission this is amazing!!!
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@hsza @sodiboo @EUCommission Flow charts will be so much better when the centrally planned and tax funded
AI gIgAfAcToRiEs are up and running@w @sodiboo @EUCommission theyre dedicating an entire continent to enriching nvidia
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission Maybe you could just rely on free market itself and instead of adding more mandatory obligations, just make possible create spare parts, service and allow to create whatever parts without need of license/approval to do so? A mandatory revealing schema after some time would be welcome too.
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission Finally a good idea from y'all.
But what the crap is that slopware graphic that apparently nobody in your PR department read.
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Your phone breaks. Your washing machine gives up. Somehow, buying new seems cheaper than repairing.
The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe.
Repairs must be offered even after your warranty endsParts must be available after the model is no longer soldChoose repair under warranty and get an extra year of legal coverageAn EU platform will help you find local repair shops and fair pricesLess waste, more repairs. Good for your wallet, even better for the planet.
@EUCommission finally!!
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Moreover, you should think of something about phones and tablets with healthy hardware but outdated software. So many companies especially in China stop the software updates/upgrades after like 2-3 years. And moreover, they also make it too hard for the #FOSS communities to come up with alternative operating system for these devices.
Some companies lock the device to prevent installing custom OS.
Some other violate #GPL and they don't release the #Linux source code for their devices.
Some release the GPL code with a 1 year delay. Which means FOSS community is 1 year behind to bring custom OS to the device.
All of these contribute to #ewaste and they harm the planet. And many people are forced to buy a new phone/tablet every 1-3 years to get a newer Android version.
@farooqkz @EUCommission yeah...unsupported devices should be stripped off any locking, both software or legal.
