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by miralize 1906 days ago
Does the EU law make exemptions for unfinished products? They're still providing you a product.
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These laws were made to protect regular consumers when they buy a washing machine to ensure that the manufacturer could not screw them over.

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.

> These laws were made to protect regular consumers when they buy a washing machine to ensure that the manufacturer could not screw them over over the last few decades:

That didn't work out very well. They just found different, more insidious ways of screwing people over.

https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buying-advice/washing-ma...

https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buying-advice/washing-ma...

https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buying-advice/washing-ma...

https://www.ukwhitegoods.co.uk/help/buying-advice/washing-ma...

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This isn't about needing it though, as far as I can tell it's legally required, so I don't know how (if at all) they're getting around that.
Regular consumers are not supposed to buy it. They probably wouldn't be able to use it and certainly wouldn't get much out of it.