Right to repair signed into law in Minnesota - we won! 

Someone else would've done what I do and maybe would've done a better job of it. I don't feel much way about it at all.

​@@rossmanngroup You have *undeniably* brought a lot of attention and thus support to the topic. Don't diminish your contribution! Keep it up, Louis 🌟

@@rossmanngroup I like your humility, but don't undermine the work you've done. I'd say you're a pretty great representative for it, as it affects your line of work, and you know what your talking about and can explain it well to most laymans. Nobody's perfect, but you've taken up the mantle well. I'm glad it's you representing this cause.

@@rossmanngroup Louis, people have been making less each year, paying more just to barely scrape by each year over decades. Most people just kind of quietly grumble and accept it, they don't do ANYTHING about it. Sure theres plenty of valid reasons for people not to deal with it, but if nobody does, things only get progressively worse. It's incredibly rare for someone to do what you've done and to the extent you've done/currently are working towards this. It's a pretty selfless action (I know you could probably claim you own a repair business and it's in your best interest). You and the people supporting your efforts, or people supporting right to repair on their own have all done amazing work. Someone 'might' have been able to do something similar,, but I think your following and drive was a very significant part of the progress in right to repair overall. You're doing more than a lot of politicians, more than a lot of the richest wealth hoarders, for the average person. I didn't even know how scummy practices were before I found your channel.

@@rossmanngroup your consistency in how you reply to people saying things like this is the most impressive thing of all~

This is the way. and the next time some blackpilled doomer says this is a pointless waste of time, I can point to what you did here and the fact that it was successful. Thank you!

Thank you for making the effort.

Wow, this is amazing. I'm gonna try this myself

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This gives me great hope.

Thank you!

MN resident here, I must have been following the wrong bill number, it was a surprise to me. Preaching everywhere I can too.

Caleb, thank you!

Are you winning, son? Yes, we are.

That is the way, Caleb. Talk to the people, and convince them to call / write to their representatives. Assume your reps don't fully understand why R2R is important, and that they are not aware how many of their voters / constituants CARE. Assume they are living in a time before the internet, and don't understand new-fangled technology. Perhaps you could write up a standard letter to your specific rep, that people can simply print out and sign. Or perhaps a PETITION among those 50/60 people you talked to (name, city of residence, signature.. Perhaps email address). If they don't hear from the people, all they have to go on is the word of anti-repair lobbyists It's about tipping the scales :)

This is the way

@@rossmanngroup i see what you did there Louis!

​@@rossmanngroup I haven't laughed so hard at one of your videos in an awfully long time.

There will be a tipping point when repairability will become a selling point, and naturally incentivize the market to follow. No matter where right to repair wins, we step closer to that eventuality

The fun part comes when we get a good bill passed that forces companies to allow repair. Because if you can get the parts / Schematics in the USA.... they will likely end up available in other countries too. Just like if we get 1 state that requires companies to allow repair, the companies can't stop spare parts / schematics from making their way to other states.

I am brit living in the USA running a small repair business . I have to say the energy Louis has to keep this movement going is amazing. Thanks to Louis and the team for all their amazing work

@@thomaslacroix6011I believe Nokia have actually already done this!

Also from UK. What happens in US affects the UK & EU and sometimes vice versa. Huge support from UK for Louis and his team's relentless championing of our right to own and repair our own stuff. It's not a difficult concept to understand, innit? :)

so what does exactly this means for you? when can you start asking OEM for parts pointing at this law?

Writing/calling your representatives is the way; THAT ultimately makes the difference - that they know this issue matters to VOTERS/constituants. Louis can inform us and fight the good fight, but ultimately - he is NOT registered to VOTE in all 50 (?) States. The people that call, write, send in petitions.... YOU are the one(s) that make this happen :) Just assume your reps simply don't know... They don't understand why this is important. They don't know how many people care. The people (starting with you, your friends, your relatives) have to educate them. Otherwise their only real source of information... Is the lobbyists & companies voting against it. Tip the scales :) You're doing the good work - thank you. (We're all in this together - world wide - and every victory matters in the fight against 'single use' tech. Cheers from Amsterdam (NL)

As a Minnesota resident, where are you? xD

@@wyattf.3837 SE MN

The ESA is a garbage organization and always does their best to keep this from being included in these bills. See the following; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gxACAvHMSLU.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KAVp1WVq-1Q.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PD6UcT4KyEg.html We tried. We'll win video game consoles next time. No but seriously, listen to the first video, listen to her testimony. These are the people that politicians are choosing to believe over actual voting constituents. I despise the ESA. Help me discredit them so that politicians don't listen to them. I can't do it on my own. I need your help. Help me defeat them. Thank you.

@@rossmanngroup Just watched the first video and wow , I have to ask is she even lucid, that ware extremely incoherent , but anyway as some one who use to fix consoles and have a grasp on modern ones , the argument makes no sense, take for instance the SSDs soldered into modern consoles , these will fail eventually it's a wear item, and currently swapping them (flash/nand) will brick a console , allowing the system to reformat a new ssd won't modify firmware or allow piracy. Apus are also linked the other components on the board , making repairs that much harder.

So if my Ps5 breaks down, sony got my soul?

@@FaSMaN removal of what is left of the flash/nand and putting it on a board to copy it may do more harm/corruption so I agree. Even Arduino has a header to allow people to ' reflash ' something and older motherboards had similar ways to put legitimate software back on replacement chips ( ever upgrade an AMI motherboard? ) so it is possible to be done at the manufacturing level and be encrypted.

Back in the day, a PS3 was restricted for sale to a number of countries because they could be used for nefarious purposes. There is probably still a technology export list that all companies have to abide by.

I haven't. I am 100% certain this will be fought in courts as I mention in the video. Apple will kick and scream before I am ever able to purchase the modern equivalent of an LP133WP1-TJAA, CD3217, ISL9240, or angle sensor programmer through "legitimate" means. I know in my heart that my business will most likely become insolvent & bankrupt long before Apple ever makes parts or schematics available to us. I know that the parts I was able to purchase even 7 years ago, will not be available again while my business is around, and that I'll be saying goodbye to my employees before the war is won for our side. But in terms of a legislative victory, this is it. and it should be celebrated for what it is - the next victory in a very long line of necessary victories for us to live in a fixable world. Even if my business is gone, this isn't about me. It's about the next generation and the generation after that growing up in a world where their property is truly *theirs* and not simply leased from the manufacturer until something breaks. That matters, and is worth fighting for. This is 1 battle, but there's a war to win. Whether my business survives to the end of it matters not in the grand scheme of things.

@@rossmanngroup Don’t loose hope. Depending on how the courts rule and which laws are passed it can happen fairly quickly. For example, the EU mandate of USB-C will force Apple to add usb-c within the next couple years. Could be the same for right to repair.

Of course this isn't the end of the war. I think we need to recognize steps forward. It will be an even more grueling slog in the mud if we don't acknowledge how far we have come.

Lol

I'll keep fighting, not even being dead will stop ME.

In Colombia the corporations have had environmental activists killed so they can develop the land

One thing at the time man 😂!

Find a non-authoritarian way to force people to accept personal responsibility for their finances, the world is waiting.

that problem is truly fucked. no solution there. go back to square 1 & waste less money next time

"America" has no debt. The government has debt. Dissolve the goverment... problem solved. (with a short period of adjustment of course)

louis got lucky in this case because there's a donor who's rich enough to give him a million bucks to be used to fight for right to repair not sure 1 million is enough to solve americas debt,even if there's someone who can give him that much for it in the first place

New York always gets the mark of shame

Dude it was too late for that 2 years ago. NC is handing Apple over a billion in subsidies. They will listen to Apple right now.

@@danielmorton1606 That's too messed up. In normal business the one handing over the money is the one who gets listened to.

He's winning!

just like Charlie Sheen

We are winning!

Definitely emphasis on "killing"...

Thank you!

That's what happens when you put democrats in charge.

Minnesota democrats vs California and New York democrats is night and day.

Meanwhile they are passing red flag laws in MN so I wouldn't call what they are doing "good"

​@@Opachki69420 How is background checks for firearm purchases and limits on no knock warrants a bad thing?

@@Opachki69420 oh no! Mn is keeping their citizens safe! The horror!

Thank you!!