This is purely performative, but won’t be overturned.

it’s unlikely that spurious/generic parts will work unless they want them to, and even then they’ll be less effective.

Their official parts will likely be more expensive, so they’ll be easier to repair, but cost a lot more, instead of paying the repair shop.

The devices or machines will no longer become waste as much, but the parts will. Warranties will be voided etc.

What would’ve been a better law to introduce would be introducing a minimum time limit on planned obsolescence with the right to repair.

Also, in the EU many countries have law that supercedes EU warranty.

If your device has an inherent defect (was always going to break no matter what you did with it) and sometimes may need to be proven in a court of law, The warranty can be extended to 7 years (some countries are shorter).

For example if you buy a TV, and after 4 years it develops a fault outside the normal warranty, and you find out that, that model has a known fault that happens to a few of them, don’t try to repair it and void the warranty.

It may be still protected by that warranty in your country.

If you give people power full stop… it’s crazy. Voting for somebody to make decisions that you mostly won’t agree with, so that they can mostly line their pockets.

🥴🤷🤷

In many ways the blatancy has been a good thing, it’s the level of corruption now by Trump, his family and cohorts that’s way beyond ‘out of control’.

But at least the rest of the world are watching and hopefully noticing similarities with any of their own politicians antics to compare.

Thanks to Trump, there are at least some telltale signs to be looking out for.

Hopefully Venezuela gets their oil money back and his filthy dirty rancid hands away from all of their assets.

His term already seems incredibly long.

Oh look!! The EU are pretending to do something that the US big tech won’t like.

They’ll make double those profits back in the first month of being allowed to scan messages in Chat Control.

Europe already starting to test that… EU digital sovereignity is only really in its infancy with France, Germany and Denmark leading the way in moving quickly away from it. Thanks partly (mostly) to Trump ordering them to block access to ICC.

9 staff members, 6 Judges received sanctions from Trump for investigating Israel for warcrimes.

So it’s not just Microsoft.

MasterCard and visa, Google etc… all slowly going to feel the affects.

Governments around the world are switching to Linux

• Credit cards cancelled, Google accounts closed: ICC judges on life under Trump sanctions

• French ICC Judge Guillou Claims Trump Blocked His Visa, Mastercard After Issuing Netanyahu Arrest Warrant