Darkassassin07

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery Stores

According to The Information, 700 out of 1,000 Just Walk Out sales required human reviewers as of 2022. This widely missed Amazon’s internal goals of reaching less than 50 reviews per 1,000 sales.

Lmao.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

If you won't even put some effort in and write your own thoughts out, why should I spend my time researching what you think?

Pointing to someone else as a reference is one thing; but the completely no effort "here's some links, you do all the work" is almost insulting.

Imagine if Wikipedia removed all the actual info and just kept the reference links. I'm here for the actual info, I didn't visit to be told where I can go to find it. I'll look at the references if I need further clarification, and have the time/energy/desire to do so.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

Yes, it is a project.

They could have summarized the point in a couple paragraphs instead of demanding I waste an hour of my time to be able to respond at all. First I'd have to actually have that much free time; which I haven't had today until just now.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

Sure, but it also created a research project for me, instead of just speaking their mind for me to then respond to.

It just kills the conversation.

If you've got an opinion, voice your opinion. Why do you need someone else to speak for you?

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

You certainly can, it may get seen eventually. But I'm not going to sit through an hour of someone else's content to figure out what point your trying to make.

If you won't even put some effort in and write your own thoughts out, why should I spend my time researching what you think?

It's the lack of effort that bothers me. Especially when my time is limited.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

Thing is, medical equipment suppliers should be held to higher standards than they are currently. If you're providing medical equipment to be used in public healthcare: you should be responsible for maintaining and repairing it imo.

There should be a minimum requirement for repair/maintenance/warranty provided by the manufacturer.

Hospitals don't invest in the ability to perform such repairs largely because of the liability involved, ontop of often being a poorly funded/staffed public service.

The company license is no guarantee they aren't minimum wage nobodies.

No, but then the manufacturer is responsible for the quality of repair/maintenance performed by its staff.

If something goes wrong with the equipment; it's on the equipment manufacturer instead of the hospital using it.

With a mandate on repair/maintenance; they'd be forced to provide quality service to survive.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

.... Ok then. Enjoy your stay at the deep end... Pce

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

Odd, the YouTube channel says 'LouisRossman', not 'Mango@lemmy.world'. Perhaps you are Louis incognito? Doesn't seem likely.

Again; I'd recommend actually reading this thread. Specifically; the reply from vrek, if you couldn't narrow that down for yourself.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

Yes:

Did you actually read this thread and the replies in it, or were you just overwhelmed by the opportunity to post someone else's thoughts instead of your own?

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

That's rather short sighted. I just listed several.

Don't know about you: I'd rather not have the ventilator keeping grandma alive repaired by the hospitals underpaid maintenance department; but a trained technician from the company that built it.

Some things are about more than just an individuals personal liberties.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

Parts pairing is just one piece of the puzzle; this is more broadly about access to parts, which would include proprietary refrigerants.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

It's always been a concern; just not enough of one to explicitly forbid working on a vehicle without specific training/licensing. Hence vehicle inspections/roadworthy tests; someplaces more strictly than others.

It's possible that concern was part of the justification for not requiring manufacturers to make it easier. Spitballing.

As I said, I'm on the fence about it myself. Thing is, a vehicle on public roads has a lot of opportunity to injure or kill someone if a repair was made incorrectly. It's about more than just a person and the thing they own.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

Oh definitely.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Oregon’s governor signs right-to-repair law that bans “parts pairing”

Some products — like devices powered by combustion engines, medical equipment, farming equipment, HVAC equipment, video game consoles, and energy storage systems — are excluded from Oregon’s rules entirely.

It's interesting to me that Game Consoles get an exception... Not sure whats up there, other than straight up bribery lobbying.

HVAC makes sense when you consider environmental concerns (some refrigerants are really terrible pollutants).

Medical equipment, particularly equipment in public health care should be held to high standards. Authorized, properly trained repair; peoples lives depend on it.

Energy storage when attached to public infrastructure (you back-feeding the grid) can be a saftey concern for workers and the supply/load needs to be balanced to prevent damaging that infrastructure and other private equipment attached to it. Not sure preventing repair is the right move here; you can still buy and install new without oversight. Perhaps it's again a saftey concern (for the person performing repair).

Vehicles, farming or otherwise, I'm on the fence about; there's an argument to be made for public saftey/roadworthness, but I'm not sure that's enough of an argument to prevent home-repair. Again seems more to do with lobbying than anything else.

Darkassassin07 , 3 months ago to Technology in Apple says it spent three years trying to bring Apple Watch to Android - 9to5Mac

Apple confirmed that it at one point considered creating an Apple Watch for Android.

The very first line is very very different than the title...