Not having the right to repair doesn't mean I can't actually repair the thing myself. It just means I can no longer get official support from the maker of the thing if I do. Which isn't an issue if I know how to fix it myself.
What's wild to me is that those stupid fucking warranty void stickers they use to determine if you attempted to repair your shit? Yeah, those are illegal. They have been illegal since before I was born. And yet I don't think I have ever opened up an electronic device that did not have one.
I had Bose Quiet Comfort 2 earbuds that worked great, but I got them wet (hard seltzer spilled on them). I dried them off, and cleaned them off with 90% isopropyl alcohol, popped the case open, cleaned out the liquid and cleaned off the circuit board with Isopropyl, and let it dry. I knew the buds themselves still worked perfectly because I had used them, the case was the problem.
Since they use pogo pins, there's no way to charge them externally. Also, apparently, each set of buds is linked to only one case, so you can't even buy another case and re-pair them and use that case for charging. I spoke with Bose and their "solution" was to sell me the QC3s for a $30 off discount.
$250 earbuds that are now useless because I can't charge them.
Couldn't you, like... Connect the pins directly to a power source while pushing them together to make the contacts on the pogo touch or something to bypass any of that?
I'm still salty. I bought a quest 1 back when it first was released thinking this is the future. Bought a bunch of games and loved it. 3 years later, the very games I BOUGHT and PLAYED through the meta store are no longer "compatible with my device". How the hell can something I already own and played for hours suddenly not work? I hate it, especially hate FB and all it's garbage trying to force us to buy the latest crap. I now own an expensive paper weight. Bah!
Wow. I’m honestly shocked. My Oculus CV1 still has support. I had been considering the Quest 3 for a while, but the attachment to Meta was my hesitation. I had already decided to go with the Index by this point, but this just further confirms it’s the right way to go. Obviously a much more expensive option, but if it means I don’t have a paperweight in a few years, it’s worth it in the end.
Valve: "We helped develop the open-source technologies that lets you run ancient abandonware from defunct studios for an obsolete version of a completely different operating system, on a handheld, for free."
Facebook: "You know that game you bought that you were playing just fine like 10 hours ago? Yeah it isn't compatible anymore despite the completely static hardware and software. Only solution I see is buying a shiny new expensive device from us and making a Facebook account, there just isn't any other way."
But old games would sometimes ask me to register the software to get free help and updates or whatever. And I had to click no thanks every time I installed one of those games. I thought it was suuuch a hassle.
If funny now, but if we're honest with ourselves, it still pissed us off, then.
It felt like I would always find that damn screen sitting there waiting on an answer, after leaving the installer running overnight. I would click "no thank you" and then see "your installer is starting, progress 0%".
People forget, you never owned the games you bought, physical cartridge or not. The instruction booklets state that you bought a license. It's the bullshit argument console manufacturers use/used to go after emulation developers.
Having a copy of the game that can't be fucked with by errant updates to the game files or by updates to the device you use to run it is a wonderful thing, but don't lie to yourselves about the legality of ownership. That's been a busted clusterfuck for longer than most users on here have been alive.
Scott Ross is a Youtuber who has always been vocal about game publisher making games unplayable by closing their servers. Lately he is gathering information about the legality of this practice worldwide to find the best country/state union to fight it legally because come the end of March the game The Crew will be shut down by Ubisoft but has still a very big active playerbase that might be able to move things forward by contacting consumer rights organisations here in Europe.
More Infos in his Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAD5iMe0Xj4