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Not specifically waiting on right to repair, but older electronics have four things going for them:
So all of my laptops all cost well over $1000 new (EDIT: I've never purchased a laptop new in 25 years of using laptops exclusively). But wait a couple of years and suddenly they're the price of a couple nice meals. Wait a bit longer and you can do a curbside pickup. And when something breaks, I can fix it myself with cheap replacement parts instead of waiting on warranty repairs. Also, going back to the documented thing -- used MacBooks used to be great for Linux, but then the butterfly keyboard and T2 chip became a thing and I know to avoid them because that keyboard was never solved and ended up being replaced after multiple class-action lawsuits.
Time works to our advantage in many ways.