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"No user serviceable parts inside"

Or, in simple English, repair requires skill, training, knowledge, some combination of the three, beyond that a regular and common user would possess.

It also works, in the real world, to identify some product that can not, in fact, be repaired at the component level, either due to physical reality (epoxy potted components come to mind) or the manufacturer's inability to source the required components (third-part complex parts, I could offer examples which should be obvious to anyone able to make an argument from knowledge).

Sometimes this is more a statement of reality than an attempt at obfuscation. 'cause some stuff cannot be 'fixed', and the average user would not even understand why.

Disclaimer - I fully support Right to Repair. I also acknowledge the reality that some stuff is really difficult. And in the example from TFA, We are generally talking about equipment that is not so much 'repaired' as either replaced at the subassembly level, or more likely, in the example, problem-solved in software. You want the right to repair your router's software? Or just access to it after the explicit agreement or arbitrary agreement with the manufacturer says no? As in, you paid for support during the warranty period, but after that expired, the manufacturer soon abandoned software support...? Read the EULA. Ask the State to force them to do whatever the State decided to do. Watch innovation die.

"So, let the companies retain their monopoly over repair and then regulate that repair business"

Your solution is the highest abuse of rent-seeking for the ostensible purpose of 'making things right'.

And this is how government destroys our lives, beyond even the efforts of 'those evil corporations' that are assumed to exit merely to exploit us.

Your proposal is the opposite of liberty. It substitutes the State for the Corporation. And diminishes us further with no benefit, because the State will act in its own interest. The solution is less of the State, more of the individual. Right to Repair does this better than regulating repair.

The ignorant part is people assuming a mind on psychedelics can’t make stupid and sometimes deadly decisions. Especially an ignorant immature mind.

Yeah. You’re right. It wasn’t the mushrooms that killed the young adult they’re hosing off the front grill of an 18-wheeler. It was the psychedelic trip they were on that thought it looked like a grilled cheese sandwich wanting a fucking hug.

Now go tell his Mother the doctor is still as right as you are.

However, it was Obama and Biden that laid the groundwork for the war against Ukraine

This site needs to filter out AI-generated nonsense. It's both hilarious and annoying to have these hallucinations posted.

It's especially annoying when the AI can't be bothered to do the slightest bit of research and read The Budapet Memorandum. We know AI can't understand what it means, but it could at least scan it into its database.

Spazis?

Mars will likely require the following infrastructure: space station in earth orbit, space station in lunar orbit, lunar base, space station in orbit around mars, and then a mars base. Like military operations, it's all really about logistics. Can we squeak in a direct recon flight, sure, but more serious stuff will require infrastructure.

Toss in some local acquisition and processing of resources at some point. Ex H2 O2 -- for air, water, and fuel.

A human on site is far more capable than a robot. A robot will have far greater endurance at a site. Which is better depends on the mission, the tasks to be done.

Also a big part of these missions is to develop and test the tech necessary for manned missions.

Frustration indexes have been used before in other customer facing industries, in particular to determine if users are being over served or under served. A certain level of dissatisfaction is expected, if it's too low then too many resources are being spent per user. Ie wasting money. Maximizing revenue often involves a non-zero frustration index. Seriously, service that is too good is sometimes considered a bad thing.

They aren't being forced. They're doing this willingly and enthusiastically.

Joke's on them. Nobody has the attention span to watch multi-hour videos anymore.

Not host OS based. There will likely be some trusted age verification service. Much like the various trusted certificates we already use on the web.

Have you previously entered a credit card into your apple account or apple wallet. That's probably all they need. It may be a non-issue for most adult apple users.

Only if someone bothers to read the article *and* understand it *and* care enough to call out the publication.

A lot of predicates there.

They probably want a current verified ID, with the current address and contact info that comes with that. Ie. Also 15, 18, and 21 years olds may be required to provide different levels of info.