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#righttorepair

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DoomsdaysCW

#Riverhead #RepairCafe

Saturday, September 13, 2025
1:00 PM 4:00 PM

"From 1 to 4 pm on September 13th, North Forkers can bring broken items for repair. Volunteer repair coaches help fix household goods, bikes, toys, clothes, jewelry etc. at the Repair Café hosted by North Fork Environmental Council in collaboration with Greenport’s Floyd Memorial Library.

"What do you do with a broken toaster? Or when your bike’s wheel is out of kilter? Or after moths attacked your favorite sweater? Toss it? No! Making repairs is smarter:

● It saves money otherwise spent on new things.

● It keeps waste out of our environment.

● It increases independence through learning useful skills.

● Plus, it’s fun and a chance to meet new friends.

"How does it work? People visiting the Repair Café bring broken items from home: dull knives or lamps gone dark, broken tableware or teddy bears, cardigans or coffee makers , bikes – anything that is broken (and portable) is welcome. Local volunteer repair coaches share their know-how and do repairs, while the owners observe, help, and learn new skills. The service is free of charge.

"Why is this important? By promoting repairs, NFEC wants to help reduce waste. 'We throw away piles of stuff in the United States. But where is ‘away’? There is no Away', says Repair Cafe organizer Margaret de Cruz. 'Waste ends up in the oceans, or buried in our land.' The average landfill in the U.S. is 600 acres. With over 3000 active landfills in the US, that means almost two million acres can not be used for habitat. But worse than that, they all leach toxins, poisoning our water, air and our bodies. One of the solutions is to produce less waste in the first place. 'Unfortunately, many people have forgotten that they can have things repaired. Repair Café wants to change that.'

"What’s in it for the community? Repairing saves money and resources, reduces consumption and can help minimize CO2 emissions. 'But above all, Repair Cafés demonstrate how much fun repairing things can be, how easy it often is, and the results add credence to the Right to Repair movement,' says de Cruz. Among the 67 items Repair Café volunteers fixed at last year’s event, there was an elephant statue, a remote toy truck, an Irish sweater, a waffle iron, garden shears, a fan and quite a few pieces of jewelry.

“Jointly making repairs can lead to pleasant contacts in the neighborhood”, says de Cruz. 'If you repair a bike, a vase or a pair of trousers together with a previously unfamiliar neighbor, you look at that person differently the next time you run into them on the street.'

FMI: NFEC1.org – or for the International Repair Café movement, go to repaircafe.org/en

#SolarPunkSunday#RepairCafesNewYork#RightToRepair
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Colin H.

@hl I have a battery drain issue on my Kobo Libra H2O. I replaced the battery, but in my case it didn't resolve the problem. Eventually I had to fit a physical switch between the battery and main board, and now I shut the reader down and "switch off" every night. Mildly annoying but it works.

Hope your fix is a bit more straightforward.

#Kobo#RightToRepair
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Henry

Hopefully this battery replacement will revive my #Kobo touch #ereader . Bought in 2011, the original battery, even in standby, would only hold about 5 days. Had to swap the little controller board on the replacement, which was a little awkward, given my amateur #soldering skills.

Now charging in the Kobo, which seems to recognise it without fuss.

Photo showing the insides of a Kobo touch ereader from the back. Lots of circuits, chips and a large black battery at the top.
Close of up of a new battery, that with some fiddly wires, has a small control board soldered to it.
Inside back of a Kobo touch ereader, with the new battery installed.
#RightToRepair
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Caleb Faruki

Labor is the most expensive part of repairs.

The Repair App we're working on depends on being low cost because repairs are already too expensive.

Now that #rails v8 has folded caching, queueing and pub/sub into the db and removed the need for redis, my favorite framework is even easier.

That's one less resource demanding compute and one less dependency demanding attention when stuff starts breaking.

therepair.app

therepair.appThe Repair App
#righttorepair#RighttoRepairEurope#repaircafe
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Martin Gleadow

My salt grinder stopped grinding salt effectively. At this point I suspect most people chuck it in the bin and buy a new one, but I hate waste. I unscrewed the bottom plate and removed the mechanism, then purchased a ceramic replacement. On fitting this I discovered the old shaft had also failed and did not retain the burr, so bought a 12" shaft, cut it down, and whacked the end to create a peen to hold the burr. And also replaced the stainless screws which hold the mechanism in.

#RightToRepair
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WeAreFairphone

:FairPhoneA: Fairphoners GRENOBLE 🇫🇷

🗓️ Mardi 20 mai 🕖 19:00 h
🏠 La Turbine.coop | 5 Esplanade Andry Farcy | 38000 Grenoble
ℹ️ grenoble.fairphone.community

Tous les curieux bienvenu•e•s !

@LowMemory /u

Fairphone Community Forum · 🇫🇷 Fairphoners Dauphinois (Grenoble et environs) | 20 mai🇫🇷 Les Fairphoners autour de Grenoble se rencontrent avec la Guilde des Utilisateurs d’Informatique Libre du Dauphiné chaque 3ème mardi du mois à 19h. La prochaine rencontre aura lieu mardi 20 mai à 19h à La Turbine.coop, 5 Esplanade Andry Farcy, 38000 Grenoble (entrée sur le côté du bâtiment). Ce premier message sera tenu à jour, n’hésitez-pas à poster une demande/réponse si vous êtes dans le coin ! 🇬🇧 Grenoble’s Fairphoners monthly meetup in corelation with local FOSS user group 🇫🇷G...
#Fairphone5#Fairbuds#eOS
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wilfred

Highlights the importance of right-to-repair.

“The US military is a major force for manufacturers to contend with — and Warren hopes that adopting repairability rules will have a ripple effect far outside it. “The Army’s commitment to right to repair shows other industries that they can do the same,” Warren says. “If it can happen here, it can happen in farm equipment, farmers, washing machines, consumer electronics… and every place else that big manufacturers have tried to take two bites at the apple: the initial price and another bite at the consumer to cover subsequent repairs.”l

#righttorepair #army #us #repairs #manufacture #tech #news
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The Verge · The US Army is getting in on right-to-repairBy Emma Roth
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ilias :thepiratebay:

another exempt from "Apple in China" book

this is really fascinating. not just how yellow cows in China have been outsmarting Apple business-wise, but in tech as well

and the origins of how & why Apple became strongly anti-right to repair

Burned-Out iPhones ... At the same time, the resellers orchestrating the long lines to acquire Apple products were increasingly mixed up with organized crime, and they sought ways to inflate their margins. They began buying Apple products in large quantities in the United States, where iPhones could be acquired more readily, at a lower price, and without sales tax. Some of the yellow cows found yet another ad- vantage: if they purchased iPhones through a carrier such as T-Mobile or Verizon, they could use fake IDs and acquire new iPhones with just a down payment on a twenty-four-month contract-with zero intention, of course, of ever paying the next twenty-three installments. So instead of purchasing an iPhone for, say, $500, then finding a Chinese city where Apple products were scarce and a willing buyer existed to pay a price marked up by hundreds of dollars, they found an ingenious but illegal way to acquire iPhones at less than $100, dramatically increasing their profits. The problem with these iPhones is that they were carrier-locked - that is, they were restricted to a specific US network and wouldn't function in China. But as the yellow cows elevated their tactics and grew more cunning, they developed technical know-how through factory connections. There were, after all, huge sums of money involved as the number...
... of iPhones sold in China expanded from hundreds of thousands in 2009 to more than 20 million in 2012. At these factories the yellow cows found to "burn out" the main computer chip within the iPhone. They were deliberately breaking the unit, but in the process, masking its retail market country of origin. Then they started paying Chinese mi- grants to show up at the Apple Store and complain that their new iPhone didn't work. Store employees at the Genius Bar were at first oblivious of the scheme and couldn't make heads or tails of these units. Using special tools, the Genius Bar employees would open the iPhone and confirm it to be brand new, but with the processor zapped. In some instances they reported to their bosses that the returned phones had existing customers' details attached to them-US names and addresses-which flummoxed them because that wasn't possible for a new phone. Uncertain what was going on but wanting to provide Apple's famously courteous customer service, the staff gave some customers brand-new iPhones - a delight to the reseller bosses who'd devised the scheme. "This was like cocaine to the yellow cows," says a former Apple executive familiar with the episode. "They were making a fortune."
#Apple#Tech#Technology
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Osman

One household item that I would say that my partner and I own that is over engineered is our $7 box cutter. Let me explain.

At one point I thought there has to be an easier way to open up the endless parade of cardboard boxes that inevitably comes from modern day online shopping and consumption.

My immediate thought was to buy a razor blade knife. That seems to be what everybody uses and would be a safe default choice. I mean after all, those knives are _literally_ called "box cutters". Surely that would be the "best" option. Or maybe I can just keep using my pocket knife or maybe the kitchen scissors?

Alas...No. My brain didn't want the easy way out. Instead, I thought to myself, "..surely there is a better way.."

Anyways, after many **hours** of searching online later, I found it. I found **IT**.

Now I don't normally tout or shill products online, but god damn if this isn't just peak engineering at a surprisingly affordable price.

It has solid design features that you wouldn't have even thought to ask about or consider.

It has a non-stick blade coating so the inevitable gluey gooey coat you get from opening boxes is just a thing of the past. Its blade design is serrated and adjustable in length, so you can do the deep box cuts or shallow cuts for fragile boxes. And when you're done with the blade, attach a replacement blade, so your right to repair is also not prevented.

I don't care if you buy this or not, but I do care that you know about this awesome Japanese design. Boosts are appreciated, but not necessary. Bathe in this knowledge!

canary-usa.com/products/canary

canary-usa.comBox Cutter Easy-Lock 1'' Blade
#design#overengineering#engineering
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