The sad fact is that the majority of Americans have a Wal-Mart mentality. We want to buy the most stuff for the least amount of money. And if that means buying stuff made in China or Mexico, so be it.
How do we change our entire culture's mentality on this?
In the right-to-repair/operate side of things, those with certain skills could make alternate 3D parts available to be machined. 3D scan stuff, use CAD to make part models to be shared.
Or reverse-engineer the computers in order to provide alternate operating systems.
If you don't have skills, but there are those who do, people could support them financially.
"Open hardware" is a path forward for this. Search the term for more information.
So how do we, the people, deal with this?
The sad fact is that the majority of Americans have a Wal-Mart mentality. We want to buy the most stuff for the least amount of money. And if that means buying stuff made in China or Mexico, so be it.
How do we change our entire culture's mentality on this?
In the right-to-repair/operate side of things, those with certain skills could make alternate 3D parts available to be machined. 3D scan stuff, use CAD to make part models to be shared.
Or reverse-engineer the computers in order to provide alternate operating systems.
If you don't have skills, but there are those who do, people could support them financially.
"Open hardware" is a path forward for this. Search the term for more information.