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Louis: your former Governor (Kathy Hochul) has been sitting on a law, the Digital Fair Repair Act, passed by the NY legislature back in June. She still has not signed it. Have you been in contact with the Governor’s staff to urge her to sign it into law? (It would be the first electronics right to repair bill to become law anywhere in the U.S.! ) Also: do you/we know what is holding the Governor back from signing it?

One problem I see is that the art of repairing things has been lost. Most people have no clue how to do even basic maintenance on the stuff they own and - therefore - are more willing to believe manufacturers’ arguments that they basically shouldn’t be allowed to fix their own stuff. How do we change that (sad) reality and foster more of a sense of ownership and empowerment among the public so that repairing a burned out transistor is looked at more like a car owner changing her own oil or wiper blades or fixing a flat - things that car owners just assume they are free to do?