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The Right to Repair Movement - If You Don’t Know, Now You Know

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

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The Broken Ice Cream Machine

When something breaks and the only solution is to take it back to the manufacturer, they can charge you whatever they want. Anything that has a chip in it right now is probably impossible to repair without using the manufacture. Manufacturers are making repairs harder, like limiting the availability of spare parts or using adhesives that make parts difficult to replace. It's as if they've engineered this point about breaking into a phone than the capital building to break into a car. They got special screws, digital locks, digital reset buttons on their products which prevent anyone but an authorized technician from repairing them. And so people basically turn to witchcraft when something goes wrong with their electronics. Let's just put the

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