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Yes, replacing rivets is pretty easy.
These are not rivets. You could call them eyelets, or grommets. Even so, calling them grommets or eyelets is stretching a term to fit an object that they resemble, but probably makes the sound much simpler than they are. These things typically go through both walls of the rim, spreading the load of the spoke to both walls. If the dimensions are off by a fraction of a mm, they won't do that.
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