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Hi, this is Bill Sikkens host of User
Friendly

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2.0 Saturdays here on The Answer
with this week's Tech Wednesday.

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This week on User Friendly,
we're going to talk about right to repair

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in the current status of this in 2026.

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For anybody that doesn't know right
to repair as a topic,

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that refers to the idea
that if you buy something, you should

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have the right to be able to work on it
yourself and repair it yourself.

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A lot of manufacturers
don't like this idea,

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and they create situations
where you need special tools, or access

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to special software

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or other things to be able to get in
and diagnose and figure out what's wrong

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with your product.

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In some cases,
it goes on where they will say,

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if you get in here and mess with anything,
it actually will.

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Voyager warranty.

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One of the biggest areas
that this has been a problem with

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is on the farm, where things like tractors
have to work in a very timely fashion,

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and modern equipment,
just like our cars, is very,

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very advanced
and has a lot of these different things.

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This week on User Friendly 2.0,

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we're going to talk about right to repair
where it's at

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if we're getting the right
to repair or not.

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So join us Saturday
here on The Answer at userfriendly.show