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California passes right-to-repair act guaranteeing seven years of parts for your phone
(www.theverge.com)
this post was submitted on 14 Sep 2023
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So we're going to get repair parts available from Xbox and Nintendo? And ways to flash a firmware onto it? It seems hard to imagine what this will look like in practice. It's one thing to see fairphone or framework do it and it's another thing to consider what it looks like for everyone.
Read elsewhere gaming handhelds may be exempt. Unsure if that's accurate.
The bill text excludes video game consoles completely.
https://legiscan.com/CA/text/SB244/id/2813977
Special interests at work again.
FFS of course
That needed to be included as well