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Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

I Fix It Repair Manifesto

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Great channel covering and advocating right to repair, Lewis Rossman

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@Endof10 Good morning everyone,
I am following for work a project of reuse of hardware dated by the Italian public administration (office PC between 2010 and 2015 as the start of use year).
as a distribution I focused on zorin OS for the ease of migration from windows, general stability of the system, look and feel very nice and pleasant.
my biggest obstacle is the finding of cheap SSD disks also used to put in place of the current mechanical disks, otherwise the machines are too slow, and I fear the boomerang effect.
the machines will be donated to voluntary associations that request it, but I fear that with a mechanical disk that makes the machine too slow for modern use in 2026, the average user perceives linux as a slow operating system, without understanding that the problem is the hardware. I am also a volunteer of one of the main Italian environmental associations, legambiente, so I gladly offer myself for installation parties, individual support to those who request it. I saw this page on your site but I did not understand how I should move, I ask if you can help me and guide me thanks.

https://endof10.org/it/contribute/

@zorinlynx @distrowatch.com @RepairCafeInternational @right2repair @righttorepair @eu_os @efoundation @gnome @restarterstorino

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