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I feel some kind of innate shit in me in my humanness that says fixing a thing I own cannot be illegal. Period full stop no questions or exceptions.
Somehow, I'll fight whatever in court, because I'm fine with what I'm doing
I think, legally forbidden fixing could make sense for things that people's life depends on, like health devices, or amusement park installations, or aviation. On the other hand, I don't know if that is applied reasonably in reality (likely not)
Edit: I mean, even in that case the repairs are allowed, but only for a qualified party
As someone who has worked on and worked with people who design medical devices, don't let them fool you. They are just normal electronics with better testing and parts (usually). The general markup on medical devices is so extreme and they want to keep it that way. Its why repair outside of official vendors is next to impossible. The industry is a scam.
Managed a reprographics shop where our #1 vendor had a lock on repairmen. We had to pay $10,000 for the training fee, and I think we had to re-up on that occasionally. The tech's laptop had to have a key to login to the machines for diagnostics. He couldn't even manage most mechanical repairs because the software wouldn't allow it.
Océ is the asshole manufacturer, so you all know what not to buy.
I can try to summarise my view like this: I believe, that in practice most of critical system repair locks are scam because everyone just hopes that shit will hold long enough; I was writing about why it could be reasonable if it was actually done with proper care by licensed people, and why repairs done by an unlicensed technician could be dangerous
Are you including cars?
Only if it's a special transport, i.e. an ambulance, a fire truck, or such