hey everybody how's it going hope you're
having a lovely Saturday morning so
today I'd like to cover something from
the European commission that I missed
this came out around August 31st of this
year and it just kind of flew over my
head because sometimes things go over my
head which is why I really appreciate
when people in the chat that I'll link
down below will link in the letters to
Lewis Channel things that I have missed
so I'm going to leave a link to that
down below if anybody wants to join that
particular chat to be able to prefer
stuff like this to me when I miss it so
this is from the European commission and
it says Eco design requirements for
mobile phones cordless phones tablets
pursuant to directive something of the
European Parliament and Council one of
the things I've talked about on this
channel for a really long period of time
is right to repair the fact that you
should be able to fix the products that
you own you should be able to have
access to what is necessary to do so and
that manufacturers should not try to
stop you from fixing what you own this
really just goes under the larger
umbrella of ownership which is something
that has been taken away one
subscription service at a time it's
something we go over in many videos in
this channel that just across the tech
landscape we are given less Freedom with
what we buy what we own and more
importantly nowadays what we subscribe
to and this is a big part of that many
of the repair videos I've done on this
channel if not all of them feature
something called schematics these are
diagrams that show how everything is put
together and without it it becomes
fairly difficult if not close to
impossible to do many repairs in an
economically viable fashion if you want
to fix something and you need to spend
800 hours reverse engineering it in
order to fix something that costs 500 it
likely is not going to be economically
viable for you or even a professional or
a pair person to do that repair anymore
they're just going to throw it away and
get a new one because it does not make
sense to put 800 hours into reverse
engineering something that costs 500
bucks if you're going to see that for
repair two or three times for many of
these manuals that we're talking about
they actually used to come with the
device if you open radios and other
electronics in the 60s 70s and even 80s
you would have a full schematic diagram
that just came with it there's just
naturally a part of ownership back when
the culture made more sense now that we
are living in this dystopian world where
you're not actually supposed to own the
things that you purchased we no longer
have access to this and you need to
resort to less than legitimate means in
order to get access to all these
documents so that you can do the types
of repairs that I do on this channel so
this is an initiative from the EU which
is designing mobile phones and tablets
to be sustainable and they were taking
feedback for this for a period of time
and there was another group of feedback
over here and what I found really
interesting is that when you just search
for the word diagram and it talks about
what B is going to be made available or
what they're asking to be made available
it says access to repair and maintenance
information from 12 months after the
entry into the forces regulation
manufacturers importers or authorized
representative shall from one month
after the date of placement of the
market until seven years after the date
of end of placement on the market
provide access to the repair and
maintenance information to professional
repairs for parts covered by 0.1 A and B
in the following conditions and blah
blah blah what I find interesting is
that they're including a wiring and
connection diagram as required for
failure analysis electronic board
diagrams the level of detail needed to
replace Parts covered by 0.1 a which I
think is particularly interesting now to
be clear I'm not saying that I want
everything that's in here like an exact
guide on how to take the device apart
I'll figure out how to take the device
apart but something that says oh this
has this chip on it this has this value
capacitor and resistor and so on and so
forth basic stuff like that that again
used to be normal this used to come with
desktop computers in the 70s and 80s and
used to come with almost all your
electronics in the 60s 70s and even into
the 80s it's something that many people
forget about because many people of my
age were not around to even understand
this but it's something that the older
generation that the people that are in
their 60s 70s 80s and even 90s remember
being part of the culture that they're
kind of trying to bring back here now I
don't have any faith in this actually
making its way through admittedly I'm
starting to become fairly black pill
than any of the stuff making its way
through legally versus culturally but it
is interesting to see that the EU is
actually putting legitimate and honest
effort into something like this and I
really do enjoy the fact that this is
actually making its way into the
discussion this actually has some teeth
to it because it is actually asking for
things that will allow us to do repairs
when you see Apple come out with their
independent repair provider program or
the self-service repair program and many
people have asked what I thought there
are some things that you get in there
that are cool but for the most part 99.9
of what I do at my repair shop I would
not be able to do with access to any of
the stuff from those programs because
it's missing the stuff necessary for
actual repair this is actually asking
for all of that stuff to be made
available and even if they do wind up
compromising on certain elements as long
as it says electronic board diagrams to
the level of detail necessary to replace
Parts covered by 0.1a wiring and
connection diagrams is required for
failure analysis that works and it's
also specific enough to not ask for
everything I'm not asking for Gerber
files I'm not asking for everything
that's necessary to be able to create
the board from scratch the bare minimum
necessary to be able to do failure
analysis figure out what went wrong with
the board and fix it for a customer
which is pretty cool let me know what
you think do you think this is actually
going to get anywhere do you think that
this is going to just kind of get lost
in the hellscape of modern politics you
know very curious your thoughts and I
will include links down below to this on
the European commission website again
like there are other matters that the EU
has to concern itself with now like
energy War everything else so I
sincerely doubt that making schematics
available for mobile phones is at the
top of the list but I just figured since
this just so happened to make its way in
that'll be worth a mention on this
channel and again I will leave a link
down below to a chat so that if I do
miss these things in the future you can
ping me there and we can discuss it in
the open that's it for today and as
always I hope you learned something I'll
see you all in the next video bye now