There's just so much energy in the Right to Repair movement right now. I'm in Halifax at the Canadian Repair Convention, and the agenda is packed with fixers using amazing creativity to keep things running. Livestream here: https://dub.sh/sM5WSMy
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."
Apple's C1 modem isn't on the bleeding edge of chip fabrication technology but it comes darn close and it's fascinating to see under x-rays. CT's provided by @lumafield.bsky.social and package analysis provided by TechSearch International.
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!
CDT applauds Washington State House on overwhelming passage of HR 1483, giving consumers #RightToRepair electronic equipment at their chosen service provider, without manufacturers throwing obstacles in the way. Looking forward to Senate passage and enactment into law. lawfilesext.leg.wa.g...
PSA: our partnership with @lumafield.bsky.social brings industrial grade CT to your fingertips. Most teardowns are now accompanied by a detailed interactive CT in our blog post. 12 year old me would have given anything to have this information at my fingertips. Go check it out! Link in thread
Access to the information about how to fix our things should be as widely distributed as the things themselves are.
Another person who watched this tonight and came looking for you. “We told [the lawyers] to fuck off,” is an automatic follow. Keep up the good fight!
Really thrilled at the reaction to the #BuyNow film, I had a great time working on it. We're starting to break out into the mainstream with our fight to make things last longer.
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.