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New EU law requires devices to be repairable - Every phone, television or washing machine you buy in Europe must be easier to repair starting tomorrow. That’s when the European Right to Repair Act tak (www.nporadio1.nl)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by inari@piefed.zip to c/technology@lemmy.world

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The products covered by the obligation to repair currently include:

washing machines and washer-dryers
dishwashers
refrigerators
electronic displays
welding equipment
servers and data storage products
mobile phones, cordless phones and tablets
tumble dryers
e-bikes and e-scooters batteries (from 18 February 2027)
local space heaters

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[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What exactly do you think you’d be able to easily repair on a video game console?

[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Broken ports, replace hard drive, replace memory, no software locks so custom software can keep it alive, replace battery (on a Switch for example).

Lots of thing right to repair could do for consoles.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I would hope that the Switch falls under "Tablets". Because that's exactly what it is.

[–] jjlinux@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

A fat and weirdly shaped tablet, but I agree. I can do "switch" stuff by putting on an Abxylute or a Gamesir controller on a tablet.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Video consoles are either desktop computers with proprietary parts, or tablets with proprietary parts. There is nothing especially difficult to repair in them compared to the rest of their categories.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It would be especially hard to replace the RAM and SOC in them actually.

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

Yes, fair.

[–] picnic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well how about mobile phone, laptop or a tablet?

I'm not seeing easy written anywhere, it can still be done by experts but the idea I feel would be that its overall possible to accomplish by a third party.

[–] ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Consoles are just computers now.

People repair those all the time.

[–] GoatSynagogue@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yes and no. Yes in terms of architecture, no in terms of repairability and design. How many computers have a SoC with soldered RAM? How many computers don’t let you upgrade the cpu or GPU? Good luck trying to repair the GPU or cpu or ram or SSD on a modern console. It’s just not feasible. Not because they don’t want you to, but because of how intricate and specialised they are. The parts that you could repair on a console are already easily repair/replaceable.