I got the vase for free. It's part of set of 3 glassblown art vases. Got them from a free pile from local estate clear out, a few years ago. I'm good at scoring lots of #freebies & rarely buy anything new.
@IceNine This is another huge reason I have been fighting for #RightToRepair legislation in #Canada for almost 2 decades!! I support local #ToolLibrary but also want rights to repair legislation to be enacted & enforced.
Many of my farmer friends still keep machinery that doesn't require expensive parts. Some have also opted to return to hand & horse plowing.
84-24 is a beautiful -- both technically and visually --account of restoring an original #Macintosh. A good cozy engineering read for first morning coffee.
A good news story about one of the biggest rural tool-sharing libraries in the US.
"The library is like the best neighbor you ever had. Imagine if the person at the end of your block had 1,500 tools and they’d show you how to use them"
Got the iPod Classic ready for @defcon and I think it’s appropriate for Pride month as well. This pretty much fits with the theme I think #DEFCON is trying to do this year.
That’s a really good point. Ignoring supercomputers and workstations that do actual numer crunching, everyone is pretty well off with any by-now-15-year-old computer with a decently large SSD. Issue is most of the time: one broken component, maybe a battery or a missing PSU, and the hassle to even figure out what’s wrong.
FWIW, I’ve just taken my laptop from before 2012 back in service. The PSU (a no-name replacement, because the original one broke) got lost in a carton box. Now I got a teeny-wheeny USB-C to barrel-jack adapter and it’s humming with a 65W mobile phone charger. Funny enough in this one the battery still works decently after so many years.
"A new Bill... was introduced to Parliament in April 2024: the Consumer Guarantees (Right to Repair) Amendment Bill.
This Bill seeks to take us one step closer to creating a Right to Repair in New Zealand. It would do this by changing the Consumer Guarantees Act to require manufacturers to make spare parts and repair information available to consumers and to independent repairers so that we can get our belongings fixed if they break down."
Samsung forces repair shops to sign a TERRIBLE contract, that requires technicians to destroy your phone if they find non-Samsung parts in your device! iFixit is dropping their partnership with Samsung.
#RightToRepair#RadicalDemocracy: "This paper analyses the right to repair (R2R) movement through the lens of radical democracy, elucidating the opportunities and limitations for advancing a democratic repair ethics against a backdrop of power imbalances and vested interests. We commence our analysis by exploring broader political-economic trends, demonstrating that Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) are increasingly shifting towards asset-based repair strategies. In this landscape, hegemony is preserved not solely through deterrence tactics like planned obsolescence but also by conceding repairability while monopolizing repair and maintenance services. We further argue that the R2R serves as an ‘empty signifier’, whose content is shaped by four counter-hegemonic frames used by the R2R movement: consumer advocacy, environmental sustainability, communitarian values, and creative tinkering. These frames, when viewed through Laclau and Mouffe’s theory of radical democracy, reveal different potentials for sustaining dissent and confronting OEMs' hegemony in the field of repair. Analysed in this way, an emerging business ethics of repair can be understood as driven by the politics of repair beyond repair. This notion foregrounds the centrality of non-violent conflict and antagonism for bringing radical democratic principles to repair debates, looking beyond narrow instrumentalist conversations, where repairability is treated as an apolitical arena solely defined by concerns for eco-efficiency and resource productivity."
Ich habe mich mal wieder über laute Rollkoffer geärgert und dabei #NetzwerkRollentausch gefunden. Die #reparieren#Rollkoffer und ich bin begeistert, dass das jemand tut.
(Gerne weitersagen, damit jede:r beim nächsten kaputten Rollkoffer auf die Idee kommt, dass man den vielleicht reparieren lassen kann.) #RightToRepair#Repair
It should be no surprise that Samsung would sabotage the trust and goodwill of its customers.
Samsung requires shops to report unknowing customers coming in for repair while pushing a narrative that it is committed to your right to tinker with a device you own.
The stairlift wasn't working. I replaced the batteries & all I got was a 4 beep code. There was no manual to explain what it meant. Only "authorized dealers" could get one. None would help, because they didn't install it. It would be $300 to even get someone to check, but no one would.
This is why #RightToRepair is important.
I'd like to thank my Brother-in-law for suggesting I check all the connections and fuses on the
stairlift. That was it! One connection to the motor had come off.
Had to order a new iPod classic as my current one seems to have the hold button broken on the motherboard after replacing it several times to try to fix it. Hopefully this will be the last iPod I have to buy since I ordered the Tangara. Between @mntmn and Tangara I can really start shifting to using open hardware in my daily life and this is a change I am so ready to embrace. wish I could use the Tangara before @defcon 🤷♂️
#Samsung#RightToRepair#DataProtection: "In exchange for selling them repair parts, Samsung requires independent repair shops to give Samsung the name, contact information, phone identifier, and customer complaint details of everyone who gets their phone repaired at these shops, according to a contract obtained by 404 Media. Stunningly, it also requires these nominally independent shops to “immediately disassemble” any phones that customers have brought them that have been previously repaired with aftermarket or third-party parts and to “immediately notify” Samsung that the customer has used third-party parts.
"Company shall immediately disassemble all products that are created or assembled out of, comprised of, or that contain any Service Parts not purchased from Samsung,” a section of the agreement reads. “And shall immediately notify Samsung in writing of the details and circumstances of any unauthorized use or misappropriation of any Service Part for any purpose other than pursuant to this Agreement. Samsung may terminate this Agreement if these terms are violated.""
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"Samsung requires independent repair shops to give Samsung the name, contact information, phone identifier, and customer complaint details of everyone who gets their phone repaired at these shops"
And:
"it also requires these nominally independent shops to “immediately disassemble” any phones that customers have brought them that have been previously repaired with aftermarket or third-party parts"
«...for every repair, an independent repair shop must send #Samsung your name, address, telephone number, your phone’s unique serial number and IMEI, your “customer complaint,” and all the details of your repair. »
@jasonkoebler In France, we have a #rightToRepair law now (your article shows well how important it is to have these laws everywhere). Would be interesting to know if that's legal what they want.
It's even the question if the data collection violates applicable European Union privacy and digital law.