Does the EU law make exemptions for unfinished products? They're still providing you a product.
This is Pine64, which is about as close to community driven hardware development as you can get. They give you the open-source design and source code. If you think you might need a two year guarantee just don't buy their product, it's probably not a good fit for you anyway.
That didn't work out very well. They just found different, more insidious ways of screwing people over.
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