Right to Repair

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Whether it be electronics, automobiles or medical equipment, the manufacturers should not be able to horde “oem” parts, render your stuff useless if you repair it with aftermarket parts, or hide schematics of their products.

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Where can I upload manuals hassle-free, but also without hassle to repairers who download them? (thebrainbin.org)

submitted 2 days ago by synesthesia@thebrainbin.org to c/right2repair@discuss.tchncs.de

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I previously posted:

Liberating manuals from the many jails of manuals into InternetArchive

It turns out if you create an archive.org account, they might delete it. Not sure why my acct no longer works. It’s a bit off that we must go through registration hoops in the first place in order to /contribute/ to the archive.

Anyway, I went to the effort of unbinding and scanning a manual that does not exist in the cloud. Where is a good place to upload it? I am certaintly not going to feed a manual jail of any kind. Has to be effort-free for both contributors and users.

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[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This may be an option. https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/Sharing_PDFs

[–] synesthesia@thebrainbin.org 2 points 1 day ago

Good tip. I get the impression they only want service manuals and exclude user manuals. I do have some service manuals to contribute so I’ll be considering ifixit for those for sure.

I guess they wouldn’t want the user manual I just scanned. A search of their docs db doesn't show any user manuals so I suppose a user manual would pollute their archives.

[–] MxRemy@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Anna's Archive or one of the other shadow libraries would be a good idea, even if it's in addition to wherever else you land.

[–] synesthesia@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago

well, shit.. it looked good for a moment but then I discovered it’s a Cloudflare site. CF is harmful to digital freedom and netneutrality. OTOH, I can see that they at least whitelisted Tor and the registration requires no information. But I see no upload mechanism, so it’s apparently not a way to contribute manuals.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I found some stuff for my MC on https://www.docdroid.net/

[–] synesthesia@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 day ago

i’m not sure what an MC is, but I don’t see how to search for manuals on that site. After I upload a manual, how do people find it?