Heather Joslyn summarizes an interview:
Chances are, if you’ve lived through a few innovation cycles, you’ve got too many old computers — and their cables — cluttering your house. Do you think that if you had the right to repair your devices, to swap out obsolete components for more performant ones, you wouldn’t keep piling up castoff electronics?
So does Matt Hartley, guest on this On the Road episode of The New Stack Makers, recorded at Open Source Summit North America in April.
This is a bit out of left field for Curated SQL content, but to be fair, when has that ever stopped me? I’ve owned two Framework laptops (one of which is my daily driver and the other I gave away when it stopped being my daily driver) and really like the company because of its repair-friendly ethos, making parts and schematics available—as was the norm for companies until recently. Part of owning a thing is having the ability to maintain and repair it.