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The manufacturer/seller already employs people who deal with this, and it's not expensive. Getting my washing machine fixed for 10€ parts + labor instead of 300€ parts + labor sounds mighty nice to me.

> Manufacturers must also provide [...] access to spare parts at a reasonable price.

This is the important part. Stupid shit like 0.3€ soldering buttons to 200€ motherboards so the repair is expensive has got to go.

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> Stupid shit like 0.3€ soldering buttons to 200€ motherboards so the repair is expensive has got to go

Hopefully data collection that supports device-specific repair cost breakdowns and tracking is part of this legislation.

Currently, manufacturers optimize for manufacturing -- it's cheaper to assemble with a $200 all-in-one board than a discrete button.

If it were more expensive to use an all-in-one board (say, because they were on the hook for repairs and/or buyers had a place to easily compare repair costs...) then they'd do otherwise.

Price/cost obfuscation is the root of a lot of inefficiencies.

> Stupid shit like 0.3€ soldering buttons to 200€ motherboards

I won't call soldering anything on a 20-layers pcb "stupid shit".

I don't know of any PC motherboard to be 20-layers. "Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Dark Hero" is like 650 euro and it's "merely" 8 layers. Edit: "MSI MEG X870E Godlike" is 1200 euro or so and 10 layers.

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