I'm all for repairing stuff (or atleast making a more informed decision as far as if it's worth repairing) rather than default to replace everything instead - it's just not good from a waste point of view if nothing else - that said I wouldn't expect the OEM to continue any warranty it has (on the hardware) after an "unauthorized" repair
Lance Rossman of YouTube fame has finally won his crusade in getting Right to Repair past the New York legislature. Now it just awaits the governor signing it. Congratulations Lance as your perseverance has paid off!
Roman Hottgenroth is surrounded by lamps, dishwashers and vacuum cleaners. Computers, smartphones and TV receivers are piled high on tin shelves behind him. A group of washing machines rattles loudly in test mode, only somewhat drowned out by the bass thumping from a hi-fi system an employee is...
I do know this - xenforo dropped the ball by not keeping the vbulletin reputation comments as a feature. The loss of the Reputation comments data when we switched to Xenforo really was the death knell for the site when it came to all the users that left. I know I missed it so much and I got way less interested in the site when that feature was gone and I run the site.
I'm on a page about incorrect corrections, and spent the better part of like two hours trying to get someone to understand that -5^2 = -25, not 25, and then that post had comments get reposted because that group is self sustaining, and that person was in turn trying to explain what I just explained to them. And I'm taking that as a victory