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iPhones are allergic to helium(ifixit.org)
1289 points by kwiens 8y ago|340 comments
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by kwiens 8y ago
Simple logistics. We're launching them first in the US, then bringing them to Europe. Stay tuned!
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by kwiens 8y ago
Glad you found the part only option. We sell both, but we find that 80%+ of folks prefer to get the kit that guarantees a complete solution.
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by kwiens 8y ago
(Author of the linked piece here.) The Economist is technically correct. The bill was introduced , but did not pass. We're going to try again next year.
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by kwiens 8y ago
Nope, the items with negative value cause significant problems. CRT displays are the largest design problem that recyclers are working their way through. Just this week, ECS Refining, Apple's main recycler in California, shut down. All
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by kwiens 9y ago
Fair point! I wrote this long before the KRACK vuln but I've been very uncomfortable with the closed nature of IEEE standards that I've participated in. But I've still contributed, so I reckon I'm still complicit. For wh
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by kwiens 9y ago
Well that's the point of iFixit — we have hundreds of thousands of people around the world writing their own repair info to fill the void that the manufacturers left. It's working out pretty well so far.
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by kwiens 9y ago
The original story is far better researched and more technical. Can we change the link to that instead of this repost? https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kzz7zm/diy-powerw...
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Right to repair laws are being considered in eight states(wired.com)
7 points by kwiens 10y ago|0 comments
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by kwiens 10y ago
Yes, the third party maintenance restriction is still in place. Which really neuters the exemption. You also can't develop a tool and sell it to others. (Use it yourself all you want, just don't share it.) Clearly, that's rid
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by kwiens 10y ago
iFixit is a social mission driven company. Just about everything we've done over the last ten years has been to expand the right to repair and make it possible for everyone to fix every thing they own. But there are a whole lot of othe
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Bunnie's challenge to the DMCA could open more products to tinkering(technologyreview.com)
2 points by kwiens 10y ago|0 comments
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The Copyright Office thinks software licenses are limiting hardware tinkering(ifixit.org)
5 points by kwiens 10y ago|0 comments
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by kwiens 10y ago
Or, you could create a separate issue for designing the project and for implementing it. Then cc the PM on both. Done! At the end of the day, someone should be responsible for completing the issue. Is it a PM? Assign it to them. Is it a des
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by kwiens 11y ago
It's critical to have point estimates available in Github. Zenhub, Codetree, Waffle, and others are moving to sync issue point estimation with integer labels in Github. We heavily use `1`, `2`, etc. labels in Github and have built a lo
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by kwiens 11y ago
They don't make them anymore, but you can get them used and they're still great machines.
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The EPA screwed up by opposing DMCA rules that could've exposed VW(theverge.com)
11 points by kwiens 11y ago|0 comments
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Renaming MySQL tables with zero downtime(itbrokeand.ifixit.com)
5 points by kwiens 11y ago|0 comments
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by kwiens 11y ago
The internet of things means this issue is coming to every single product in the world. If it's possible to add electronics to it, it will have a chip. And that means that software IP rules now apply to hardware. Those rules need chang
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by kwiens 12y ago
I've spent some time there and I can share a first-hand perspective. It looks like a dump in the pictures, but it's not. It's an active scrapyard. No material stays in Agbogbloshie for very long. Electronics show up, are mine
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The deadline for DMCA comments supporting unlocking and jailbreaking is tomorrow(dmca.digitalrighttorepair.org)
5 points by kwiens 12y ago|0 comments
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by kwiens 13y ago
Apple doesn't license MagSafe to anyone.
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by kwiens 13y ago
Toshiba has been aggressive at limiting DIY repairs as well. They sent Tim Hicks a takedown notice forcing him to remove service manuals from his site: http://www.wired.com/opinion/2012/11/cease-and-desist-man
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by kwiens 13y ago
We're patient. We're just upping the incentive for success. You're right, all the people working on it are amazing and deserve more accolades and less heckling.
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by kwiens 13y ago
We're actually fixing up an old, old building. So the project is really the biggest repair we've ever attempted. And we're doing everything we can to leave infrastructure exposed so it's easily repairable. But the cabine
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by kwiens 14y ago
Good question. I'm pretty open on that. The primary reason we did it was that people were taking our (free) manuals and reselling them on eBay. I felt bad for the poor people who were paying money for something that we were giving away. The
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by kwiens 14y ago
I run iFixit [1]. We started writing our own repair manuals because of this very issue way back in 2003. Apple has been very aggressively protecting their copyright on service manuals pretty much since the dawn of the internet. Here's an ex
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by kwiens 14y ago
Our memcached server bit the dust, and it took a while to populate a new cache machine so we could switch back to dynamic serving. In the meantime, our Varnish box served the static cache (showing up to step 8). So our teardown team was sti
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by kwiens 14y ago
(iFixit here.) We told every reporter we talked to that it was a fake. But we didn't get very many calls.
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by kwiens 14y ago
Kyle from iFixit here. I just wanted to say that we just present our perspective. The way we see things has evolved from taking apart thousands of gizmos and learning from people all around the world what goes wrong with hardware. We're con

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