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@midtsveen@social.linux.pizza
2025-07-27 05:58:55

Phones cost a grand, and honestly, people should just be able to fix their own stuff.
#RightToRepair #Repair #DIY

@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2025-08-25 07:43:24

The NVidia black market documentary keeps on giving: #Repair shops in #China pimp GPUs to double the VRAM. With new PCBs. Repurposing silicon, that’s sustainable hacking.
rumble.com/v6xro9o–…

Removing a GPU from a PCB with heart and precision. And that's only the first step of a two-hour process.
@davidbody@fosstodon.org
2025-08-25 22:13:03

It looks so simple, but as a practical matter it took a surprising amount of time and effort to locate parts locally and rig up this temporary replacement switch for my wife's longarm quilting machine so she can continue working while we wait for the correct switch to arrive from DigiKey.
#repair #electronics

A longarm quilting machine with handlebar controls with thumb buttons. The right handlebar has wires sticking out of the end attached with black electrical tape to a push button switch that is way too small for the button enclosure. On the machine sewing table, there is a quilt with a white background and yellow, blue, red, and black squares and triangles.
@stefanlaser@social.tchncs.de
2025-08-01 08:32:06

So much for the right to #repair, #Apple.
"a new charge port for an iPad Pro 11, a part that goes bad all the time, costs $250 from Apple. Aftermarket charge ports, meanwhile, can be found for less than $20."

Apple Is Selling iPad Repair Parts for Astronomical Prices
“I believe Apple is charging this because they know if the price is high enough no one will buy it."