Chewie
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Nest Thermostats upload 50 megabytes of data to Google every day after being disabled - WTF!
The FSF campaign to @endDRM has been a pioneer in defending consumers rights, and a precursor and key contribution to the Right to Repair movement.
Beardy Star Stuff
and 2 others
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Mua-hahahaha!!!
Yes. Yes that's right.
Down with the consumer economy of built-in obsolescence, disposable tech, and subscriptions.
Up with Right to Repair, Permacomputing, Library and Share Economies!
(Also trollololol on "device hoarding" and "costing economy {sic})
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
Claudius Link
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Join GOAT's project to customize Andrei's wheelchair, so he can go outside again and roll independently! It takes a pit crew (and donors) to repair and modify assistive technology, and do it right.
https://www.openassistivetech.org/a-walk-in-the-park/ #DisabilityJustice #RightToRepair #AssistiveTech #Moldova
If a phone still works fine, it’s not “device hoarding” to keep using it. It’s common sense.
Cory Doctorow
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Another channel where I'd love to see you appear, if you can, is Louis Rossmann's. Louis is a very active advocate for #RightToRepair and #RightToOwn, a likewise active opponent of #surveillanceCapitalism and #enshittification, and a strangely effective herder of tech-culture cats. He founded the Consumer Rights Wiki [1], and lobbies and organizes political campaigns which get gamers and PC builders out to city halls and state legislatures. His YouTube channel has 2.47 million subscribers, similarly active to the GamersNexus viewers, and the Consumer Right's Wiki editors may soon give the venerable @molly0xfff a run for her (figurative) Wikipedian money.
He's also covered the Bloomberg #DMCA abuse against GN [2], and volunteers to fund legal battles against such corporate #censorship. There's likely a large part of the combined audiences of GamersNexus and of Rossmann's channel which do not overlap demographically (or, for a significant portion, politically) with typical audiences of the venues where I've seen or heard of you ( @pluralistic) presenting the book so far, yet those audiences are certain to be amenable to your message, so talking with those audiences could help both the sales and the mission of the book.
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[1] https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RJvrTC6oTI
Join GOAT's project to customize Andrei's wheelchair, so he can go outside again and roll independently! It takes a pit crew (and donors) to repair and modify assistive technology, and do it right.
https://www.openassistivetech.org/a-walk-in-the-park/ #DisabilityJustice #RightToRepair #AssistiveTech #Moldova
As Cory Doctorow's #Enshittification book tour approaches its conclusion, there are a couple more online channels where it would be great to see Cory present the book tailored to the channel audience. Particularly, #GamersNexus (despite its name and origins) has developed into a serious investigative journalist organization, taking on the likes of Nvidia and Bloomberg and winning. See, for example, their excellent documentary on "The Nvidia AI GPU Black Market" [1], their follow-on video about Bloomberg's vexatious DMCA takedown [2], and their second follow-on about that takedown backfiring [3].
GN (with whom I have no affiliation) currently has 2.53 million subscribers, and their videos have exceptionally high ratios of views per subscriber and likes per view. Their new spin-off channel, GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy, has a more model (and presumably largely overlapping) 182K subscribers, and covers mostly the topics political leaders, regulators, and enforcement bodies have been contacting GN about since the GPU smuggling documentary. (See, for example, their video [4] about the stock and finance sloshing around in the companies forming the AI bubble.)
If you can get Steve and the team at GN to host you, Cory, @pluralistic, you'd reach a large audience of likely buyers who are also likely to act meaningfully to further to political objectives advocated in the book.
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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3xQaf7BFI
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnRWh4xOCY
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y_KF235r7A
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JfOxx6Hh4
Another channel where I'd love to see you appear, if you can, is Louis Rossmann's. Louis is a very active advocate for #RightToRepair and #RightToOwn, a likewise active opponent of #surveillanceCapitalism and #enshittification, and a strangely effective herder of tech-culture cats. He founded the Consumer Rights Wiki [1], and lobbies and organizes political campaigns which get gamers and PC builders out to city halls and state legislatures. His YouTube channel has 2.47 million subscribers, similarly active to the GamersNexus viewers, and the Consumer Right's Wiki editors may soon give the venerable @molly0xfff a run for her (figurative) Wikipedian money.
He's also covered the Bloomberg #DMCA abuse against GN [2], and volunteers to fund legal battles against such corporate #censorship. There's likely a large part of the combined audiences of GamersNexus and of Rossmann's channel which do not overlap demographically (or, for a significant portion, politically) with typical audiences of the venues where I've seen or heard of you ( @pluralistic) presenting the book so far, yet those audiences are certain to be amenable to your message, so talking with those audiences could help both the sales and the mission of the book.
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[1] https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RJvrTC6oTI
Mua-hahahaha!!!
Yes. Yes that's right.
Down with the consumer economy of built-in obsolescence, disposable tech, and subscriptions.
Up with Right to Repair, Permacomputing, Library and Share Economies!
(Also trollololol on "device hoarding" and "costing economy {sic})
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/how-device-hoarding-by-americans-is-costing-economy.html
Nest Thermostats upload 50 megabytes of data to Google every day after being disabled - WTF!
Mre. Dartigen [maker mode]
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So the inside plastic of my washer-dryer had a crack for a while.... One or two drops found their way in the inside... But now out of nowhere it now has three cracks in total.
Does anyone have any idea how and with what I could glue this? It has to last a few months...
Will throw it away when I move next year... So it doesn't have to look good...
So the inside plastic of my washer-dryer had a crack for a while.... One or two drops found their way in the inside... But now out of nowhere it now has three cracks in total.
Does anyone have any idea how and with what I could glue this? It has to last a few months...
Will throw it away when I move next year... So it doesn't have to look good...
Yogthos
and 1 other
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Omg this windows 8 era HP pro book...
Ability to take the bottom cover off with no tools, easy access to ram, wifi and hard drive. And even captive spring loaded screws in the hard drive caddy.
Look what they took from us!!
Omg this windows 8 era HP pro book...
Ability to take the bottom cover off with no tools, easy access to ram, wifi and hard drive. And even captive spring loaded screws in the hard drive caddy.
Look what they took from us!!
Questi sono servizi utili, e non sono ironico. "Piccole riparazioni" potrebbe essere un settore interessante, a molto manca la manualità e l'esperienza per cose che ad altri sembrano banali, per esempio cambiare pile agli orologi.
Tiago Mendes-Costa :mastodon:
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#righttorepair
but for broken people