Kyle Wiens

@kwiens.bsky.social

iFixit CEO + Right to Repair advocate. https://kylewiens.com/

I borrowed a friend's old Tesla Model S last week. The low voltage battery died and the car went completely unresponsive, locking me out. While I was still standing there trying to figure out what to do, my friend called me. "Hey, I just got an alert from my car that the battery is low."

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How to remove a MacBook Air battery: unscrew, unscrew, unscrew, unscrew … [some other stuff] … peel, peel, peel, peel, peel, peel, peel, peeeeeeeel. MacBook Air M4 #teardown happening now—did Apple make any hidden changes? Stay tuned!

Pulling the stretch-release adhesive strips securing the 2025 13-inch MacBook Air's batteryThe 2025 13-inch MacBook Air battery, with its eight stretch-release adhesive strips removed

Two years ago, a filmmaker approached me with an idea. They wanted to explore why we were stuck on this treadmill of buying more and more things. We went on a journey together that took us from the halls of Congress to an unlikely gathering of fixers in California.