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posted by janrinok on Saturday August 26 2023, @04:26PM   Printer-friendly

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/08/hell-freezes-over-as-apple-supports-right-to-repair-bill/

Somewhere, ol' Beelzebub is putting on his thickest coat because Apple has endorsed a right-to-repair bill, suggesting hell has frozen over. In a letter dated August 22, Apple showed its support for California's right-to-repair bill, SB 244, after spending years combatting DIY repair efforts.

As reported by TechCrunch, the letter, written to California state Senator Susan Eggman, declared that Apple supports SB 244 and urged the legislature to pass it.

[...] The bill has been praised by right-to-repair activists like iFixit, who says the bill goes further than right-to-repair laws passed in Minnesota and New York. Minnesota's law was considered the most all-encompassing right-to-repair legislation yet. Some activists, though, lamented that companies aren't required to sell parts and tools for devices not actively sold. California's bill, however, keeps vendors on the hook for three years after the last date of manufacture if the product is $50 to $99.99 and seven years if it's over $99.99.

The bill also allows a city, county, or state to bring a related case to superior court rather than only a state attorney general, as noted by iFixit's blog post Wednesday.


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  • (Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Sunday August 27 2023, @02:51PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Sunday August 27 2023, @02:51PM (#1322071)

    >Farmers learned to be self-reliant and inventive.

    That started dying with the advent of the steam powered tractor (and train) and has been vanishing into oblivion ever since. Modern farming for profit is no longer an independent venture where the farmer simply grows stuff and sells it. Maybe 0.2% of agricultural output in the USA could be characterized that way today. The rest is reliant on market forecasts, futures contracts, land leases, and a host of equipment and technology far beyond the financial means of most tractor drivers.

    My ancestors immigrated to Tennessee in the early 1800s as indentured servants, and worked their way up to landowning farmers, but a couple of generations with 4 to 9 children divided that land to a point where my grandfathers migrated to Florida following World War II. When asked why he left the family farm my grandad would answer: "because I didn't like following a mule's ass around all day."

    These days nobody bothers growing much for profit in Tennessee anymore, not like they used to at least. Over half the former farm land isn't farmed anymore, and that which is tends to be bigger operations than my family's old 400 acre plots.

    Back East is now everywhere.

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