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Kyle Wiens

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2 years

Sick Codes has jailbroken a John Deere, and this is just the beginning. Turns out our entire food system is built on outdated, unpatched Linux and Windows CE hardware with LTE modems.

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Hey @AnthropicAI : I get you're hungry for data. Claude is really smart! But do you really need to hit our servers a million times in 24 hours? You're not only taking our content without paying, you're tying up our devops resources. Not cool.

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John Deere has repeatedly told regulators that farmers can't be trusted to repair their own equipment. This foundational work will pave the path for farmers to retake control of the equipment that they own. #RightToRepair

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And yes, that is corn-themed Doom running on a John Deere touchscreen. @sickcodes really went all out for this. You can harvest corn to raise your health or go hunt down the piggies!

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We took apart the Vision Pro, and it is a phenomenal feat of engineering! There is just so much packed in this headset. Some highlights:

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As we start to understand how John Deere built this, people are raising some very real concerns about GPL compliance. Deere has built a very profitable empire on the backs of open source software. Where are their contributions back to the community?

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8 months

Thanks to @ZacksJerryRig and @dbrand for raising this to our attention. We spend a lot of money and time buying every gadget and taking it apart for all of you. Perhaps @Casetify will pitch in next time?

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Dear @Casetify , using stolen X-rays of phone internals doesn't make you a tech genius; it makes you a copycat. How about investing some of those "cutting-edge" profits into supporting Right to Repair or wheelchair advocacy? Or is that too original for you?

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If any of those requests accessed our terms of service, they would have told you that use of our content expressly forbidden. But don't ask me, ask Claude! If you want to have a conversation about licensing our content for commercial use, we're right here.

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2 years

The hard work to restore our Right to Repair is being championed by @RepairCoalition and @securepairs , and we could really use your help taking this to the next level.

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3 years

Let me share my life’s story and why Apple's repair announcement is a big deal to me. Way back in 2003, I was trying to fix my clamshell iBook and googled for the service manual. All I found was sites that had been removed because of a DMCA takedown. /thread

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5 years

I spent the last few days getting to know the materials Apple used in their MacBook keyboard. Because Apple doesn’t design these keyboards to be repaired, our analysis was destructive. A 2019 MacBook Pro died to bring you this information. /thread

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Kyle Wiens

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4 years

The Twitter hack has earned 12.17BTC so far, street value over $110k.

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The most popular and trusted block explorer and crypto transaction search engine.

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Rumor has it that Apple will use a voltage-release adhesive for the battery of the next iPhone. Here's the adhesive in action. Apply 12 volts for 60 seconds and presto, your adhesive is debonded. Pretty cool!

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@BobKitten @AnthropicAI Oh we're way past that

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6 months

Our Vision Pro is going under the knife. Stay tuned!

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8 years

This Commodore 64 used by a small auto repair shop for balancing driveshafts has been working non-stop for 25 years

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1 year

Huge news: after a decade of trying and an absolutely ridiculous amount of lobbying by John Deere to stop us, the world's first Right to repair law has passed 44-16 in Colorado. #RightToRepair

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iFixit is no longer working directly with Samsung to enable repair. We just couldn't make it work.

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4 years

I received a threatening letter from Steris, a medical device manufacturer unhappy that we are helping hospitals repair their equipment.

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5 years

The new Surface Pro X has upgradeable storage! Take that, iPad Pro!

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It's interesting how the screw orientation is a dead giveaway. The exact orientation of all the screws in your gadgets are a unique fingerprint, if you measure exactly enough.

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What a surprise, @Casetify ’s old “Inside Parts” case was also copied directly from @iFixit Lowering the resolution and adding contrast does not make you a "bastion of originality"

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@jrhunt @AnthropicAI Our TOS banned ML training before their crawl, afterwards we added them to robots.txt.

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6 years

My friend Eric was just sentenced to 15 months in jail for helping refurbishers reinstall Windows on their computers.

E-waste recycler Eric Lundgren loses appeal on computer restore disks, must serve 15-month prison...

A plan to provide “restore disks” to computer users equaled copyright infringement, according to Microsoft and the government, even though the software was available free online.

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4 years

I have spent the last two months heads down working on a huge project with the assistance of 200 volunteer librarians. It has daunted, exhausted, intimidated, and inspired us. I’m proud to launch iFixit’s Medical Device manual database: /1

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3 years

So: thank you to the people at Apple that made this happen. Changing the course of a big ship isn't easy.

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3 years

Apple’s announcement may seem like a small thing: they’re going to publish free manuals and sell parts to their customers. But it’s a total shift in perspective. It’s an agreement that this is a partnership. We’re on Starship Earth together cruising through the universe together.

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And that’s why this is so important. Fixing things is innately human: we make things and they break and we fix them. We are constantly at war with entropy, pushing back the forces of chaos a little bit at a time.

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This is just stunning. An active duty US Marine logistics officer just published an NYT op ed arguing that we need Right to Repair to protect our military. Manufacturers are preventing soldiers from fixing equipment themselves.

Opinion | Here’s One Reason the U.S. Military Can’t Fix Its Own Equipment (Published 2019)

Manufacturers can prevent the Department of Defense from repairing certain equipment, which puts members of the military at risk.

www.nytimes.com

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2 years

The amazing ag Doom mod complete with Corn Slaughtering Simulator 2000 is the work of the very talented @Skelegant .

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Apple was the first electronics manufacturer with open source, Creative Commons licensed manuals for every product they sold—because I did it for them. Since 2003, iFixit has systematically, painstakingly disassembled every new gadget. Every iPod. Every MacBook. Every iPhone.

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3 years

Right to Repair continues to be necessary for all the reasons that Apple made this announcement today. We need to shift to a society where fixing and maintaining things is the default, not the exception.

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2 years

We've just posted our look inside the iPhone 14, and it turns out that Apple has totally redesigned it to make it more repairable.

The iPhone 14 Feature Apple Didn’t Tell You About | iFixit News

The best feature of the iPhone 14 is one that Apple didn’t tell you about. Turns out this isn’t the iPhone 13S reviewers have been panning—take a look!

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3 years

I muddled my way through and fixed the computer, but it was harder than it should have been. I broke tabs and latches. And out of that frustration, I started iFixit to make sure no one had to suffer like I had.

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6 months

When the EyeSight displays your eyes, it isn’t just displaying a single video feed of your eyes; it’s showing a bunch of videos of your eyes. Exploring inside the glass shell, we found three layers for the front-facing display: a widening layer, a lenticular layer, and the OLED.

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6 years

The NeXT Cube keyboard had a EULA on the power button.

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3 years

Right to repair is about the idea that we are all in this together. Product owners and manufacturers need to collaborate to make the amazing products that we depend on last. Neither can do it alone.

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3 years

We have sweat and cursed and bled, reverse engineering the often-opaque repair process. One gadget after another, we published simple, easy to follow instructions. Our goal is to make repair so easy, maybe you prefer to fix something rather than buy new.

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6 months

The curved bubble shell is a real bear to get open. We're pretty good at this kind of thing, and still managed to (slightly) break the glass. I would love to see the manufacturing process for this complex shape!

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5 years

And @Tarah ’s up now: As a cybersecurity expert, I can tell you that if taking your iPhone apart represents a serious security threat, we should be in an underground bunker instead of talking about this on public television.

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@Evident_LS Our full teardown has a lot more insight, along with 360-rays from @CreativeElctrn

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@ericholscher @AnthropicAI @readthedocs Exactly! They're shooting themselves in the foot.

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3 years

But there is hope! Today is a good day. Let's join together, push back entropy, and help other companies on this journey.

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3 years

Resources are scarce and they are precious. Making electronics requires a lot of energy and CO2 and the planet is getting warmer. It’s a huge amount of material and carbon and human toil to make an iPhone. Let’s make them last!

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4 years

@ZacksJerryRig So… I’m hearing I need to bring an umbrella to the grocery store

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5 years

Without doing Apple’s job for them, I can’t predict whether this change fixes the problem. It probably will help. But would I buy this computer? No way. This design has lost all credibility. It’s time to go back to a tried-and true mechanism. Thinner is not better!

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6 months

With the glass off, we can start to see how the EyeSight system works. There's a curved OLED panel with a series of lenticular lenses.

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6 months

Apple wanted a lifelike, 3D view of your eyes, so they set up custom prisms to create the stereoscopic effect. It's hard to photograph what's going on, so here's a diagram.

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3 years

This one announcement doesn't undo years of harm that Apple's design practices, undermining of environmental standards, and cynical lobbying have done. The industry is on a dark path of obsolescence right now.

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5 years

This is a big deal: Apple is locking batteries to iPhones now.

Apple Is Locking iPhone Batteries to Discourage Repair | iFixit News

By activating a software lock on newer iPhones, Apple is announcing a drastic new policy: only Apple batteries go in iPhones, and only they can install them.

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4 years

Our response in conjunction with @EFF . It is imperative that we do everything in our power to assist our medical professionals right now. #COVID19

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4 years

We’re calling it: Massachusetts Question One has passed with 75% of the popular vote. This will be the most advanced #RightToRepair law in the world, opening wireless automotive diagnostics and unleashing a world of possible apps.

Massachusetts Just Passed the World’s Most Advanced Right to Repair Law | iFixit News

At least one victory was reached Tuesday night: Massachusetts passed a new Right to Repair law.

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5 years

How Pebble’s watches have stuck around is a fascinating story. A crazy dedicated community reverse engineered their servers and set up their own infrastructure. The watches are still running strong, three years after the company failed.

Rebble with a Cause: How Pebble Watches Were Granted an Amazing Afterlife | iFixit News

Pebble watches should have died in 2017. But around 200,000 of them are running like they never stopped. How the Rebble Alliance saved their favorite gadget.

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6 years

Apple got away with faster-than-needed consumer upgrade cycles for a long time because they’d convinced people bad battery = new phone. That changed a year ago.

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2 years

Colorado just passed the world's first Right to Repair law for powered wheelchairs. This is absolutely huge for the disabled community, and an important precedent that could pave the way for other products.

Colorado Fixes Wheelchair Repair with New Bill | iFixit News

Governor Polis of CO just signed the first Right to Repair bill to pass in the US since 2012, giving powered wheelchair users access to parts, information, and software.

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3 years

But it’s not enough—the community just can’t keep up. And some companies are starting to get that. Motorola and Patagonia and HTC and others have started to share, and that’s really exciting.

Motorola

iFixit brings together manufacturers and the repair community to provide thousands of solutions for Motorola phones. Moto G 5G (2022) Moto G Stylus 5G (2022) Moto Edge (2022) Moto Edge 5G UW (2022)…

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Sometimes, we miss something. Back in the day there was a MacBook with an upgradeable wireless card. iFixit’s instructions said, just take it out and put it back in. What we didn’t realize was that if you installed the card backwards, it fried the computer. Oops.

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We’re a wiki, and so our members quickly fixed the problem—but not until someone toasted their machine learning this The Hard Way. Apple’s internal service manual documented the problem, but we didn’t have access.

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3 years

It’s a joint responsibility, and for the last few decades too many manufacturers have been shirking theirs. They stopped selling parts. They sent lawyers after folks like Tim Hicks, an Australian kid who just wanted to share repair manuals with his friends

Using Copyright to Keep Repair Manuals Secret Undermines Circular Economy | iFixit News

Every day, there are fewer manufacturer repair manuals left on the web. Only a handful of electronics producers, including Dell, HP, and Lenovo, voluntarily release service manuals to the public for…

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6 months

This teardown is getting WILD.

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2 years

Right to repair is now the law of the land in New York. More states are expected to follow.

New York Passes Historic Right to Repair Bill | iFixit News

The world’s first comprehensive right to repair bill has finally been signed into law by New York Governor Kathy Hochul, over six months after it passed the legislature nearly unanimously. Huzzah!

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5 years

Oh, and we gave it a 1 / 10 repair score, just like the last one. Those scores matter—that’s the reason independent shops aren’t able to help you fix your keyboard. That’s the reason this is so challenging for Apple to fix in stores. Modular hardware is resilient hardware.

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@Evident_LS Going inside even further, you can see the second set of displays underneath. There is a massive amount of complexity in here, far more ribbon cables and connected sensors than in your phone.

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We couldn't be more proud to be working with Valve to make sure the Steam Deck stands the test of time.

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Today, we’re announcing that iFixit will be one of the authorized sellers of Steam Deck replacement parts.

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But how does the lens actually work? Why I'm glad you asked! Good thing we had a trusty @Evident_LS microscope to see the physical structure of the lenticular lens. The effect is similar to those toy cards that change the image depending on your viewing angle.

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3 years

In a landmark vote, right to repair just overwhelmingly passed the New York Senate. It's hard to overstate how important and groundbreaking this is. #righttorepair

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Apple: Only we are qualified to repair your iPhone. Independent repair will undermine our security model. Also Apple: our depot repair technicians are uploading your nudes to *your* facebook account. #righttorepair

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AirPods are super recyclable, Apple says. Nope—not unless the internals have been redesigned. No electronics recycler wants to deal with three tiny glued in batteries. 🔥

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Apple’s ‘new’ policy is required by law. Third party repairs *must* not void the warranty, per Magnuson-Moss @rsgnl

Apple Says Third-Party iPhone Screen Repairs No Longer Fully Void Your Warranty

iPhones that have undergone any third-party screen repair now qualify for warranty coverage, as long as the issue being fixed does not relate to the...

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They did it! This is huge. In a unanimous 5-0 vote, the FTC just adopted a landmark policy supporting Right to Repair.

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Apple is releasing repair information and parts to consumers. This is huge—what we've been working towards for nearly 20 years.

Everyone Is a Genius: Apple Will Offer Parts and Tools for DIY Repairs | iFixit News

A day we never thought would come: Apple will offer parts, tools, guides and software to DIY fixers in early 2022. There are, of course, some catches.

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2 years

Apple has posted iPhone service manuals online, and that is a huge step. Kudos to them for getting this done.

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@louzell_ @BobKitten @AnthropicAI The moment they released it.

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Microsoft's new Surface Laptop is a radical change for the better. We've upgraded it a full five points, our largest repairability swing in history.

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5 years

Current status: in the lab testing the new MacBook keyboard.

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2 years

Our team has been working really hard on this all year. You can now buy OEM Samsung parts direct from iFixit.

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The time is here! Genuine Samsung repair parts are now available on iFixit! Find replacement parts for the Galaxy S20 and Galaxy S21 series phones, as well as the Galaxy Tab S7+ Find genuine Samsung parts and Fix Kits here:

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The butterfly mechanism is powered by a stainless steel spring. That spring is covered by a plastic membrane. This membrane is below the butterfly, and separate from the ingress-protection that they added in the last generation.

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The largest company in each state

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@JoannaStern So what’s the new material? I phoned a friend. Meet Eric Beaton, who runs @polyengineering ’s materials engineering lab. We used a Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectrograph to fingerprint both plastics. As you can see, they’re dramatically different. Apple switched to nylon!

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Steam deck parts for days...

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Right to Repair just passed in New York!

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6 years

Costa Rica is going to ban fossil fuels—that’s pretty awesome. Wonder what will happen to all the old engines.

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5 years

Apple told @joannastern that “it has made a change to a material in the keyboard mechanism.” We found two changes. The first change is the material they made this membrane out of. Left: 2018, Right: 2019. They are visually and mechanically different.

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9 years

Video inside the taptic engine in action http://t.co/lcVx3uc7EP

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4 years

I don’t want a computer that phones the mothership for permission every time I launch an app.

Mac users couldn’t launch apps this afternoon after Apple verification server issue

Apps launched slowly, or not at all.

www.theverge.com

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2 years

Sob story in the WSJ about how LG and Whirlpool can't get customers to keep their appliances connected to the internet so they can "create new revenue opportunities." Oh no how horrible!

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Elizabeth Warren has added Right to Repair to her policy platform

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6 years

This is in marked contrast to Tesla, which has completely exceeded my battery lifetime expectations. Liquid cooling plays a big role.

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If you have something fixed, does it void the warranty? Most people think the answer is yes. They're wrong, and it's not their fault.

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Smiles on the panel as Louis points out that society is fine with the safety risks with people fixing cars. Why are we afraid of fixing phones? #RightToRepair

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Apple: We are the only ones that can be trusted to repair your phone. Independent local shops will steal your data. If you do it, you’ll screw it up. Also Apple: Our technicians are texting your nude photos to themselves from your phone.

An Apple store employee ‘helped’ a customer — by texting himself an intimate photo from her phone

In a statement, Apple said the employee was "no longer associated with our company."

www.washingtonpost.com

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Presumably, you’re supposed to pair the new battery using Apple’s diagnostic software—the software they refuse to make available to anyone. That’s a terrible precedent.

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This is unconscionable—Apple’s new agreement with Amazon bans anyone they don’t authorize from selling Apple hardware on

Amazon Is Kicking All Unauthorized Apple Refurbishers Off Amazon Marketplace

Amazon told independent refurbishers that it will now only allow "authorized resellers" to sell Apple products on Amazon Marketplace.

www.vice.com

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The fight to protect your right to jailbreaking is about to start, and @saurik and I have your back. http://t.co/OBYeaiUMMC

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@codinghorror My most controversial post of all time

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@Ro__183 @ZacksJerryRig @dbrand @Casetify Should we?

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Our battery sales continue to be way up. People are maintaining their stuff! No need to buy a new car when your tires wear out, or a phone when the battery is low.

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And the winner for Privacy Worst in Show #ces2022 awarded by @EFF is a light bulb that spies on you. Boo!

This new light bulb from Sengled can tell if you are sleeping

The Smart Health Monitoring bulb will also track heart rate and body temperature.

www.theverge.com

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@barelylingual @AnthropicAI We also provide archives of our content! I think that we're such a rare species that, like Google, they just use their standard blunt instruments.

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That Apple changed both materials is telling. They clearly think they have multiple failure modes.

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