Fixify

13/11/2022

Sign this petition to get reparability labels added to products in NZ.

Unrepairable products cost you and the planet.

04/08/2022

29/03/2022

Sepp Eisenriegler loves giving second chances: To the defunct electrical appliances awaiting repair or refurbishment, the hundreds of unemployed people he’s trained as skilled repairers over the decades and even the two rescue dogs that follow him devotedly around R.U.S.Z., the repair and service ...

18/11/2021

https://www.ifixit.com/News/55370/apple-diy-repair-program-parts-tools-guides-software

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.

22/09/2021

This is a great concept. It's been tried before but costs and style were sacrificed. This time, a company (framework) have made something amazing.

Thin, lightweight, high-performance 13.5” notebook that can be upgraded, customized, and repaired in ways that no other notebook can.

22/09/2021

There are plenty of simple design choices that can greatly aid repairability. However, until manufacturers are motivated to make those choices they will continue to make things difficult to repair.

The growing e-waste problem, raw materials scarcity and global heating is driving new legislation in the consumer electronics industry. The UK government recently introduced so-called “right to repair” legislation in the form of the Ecodesign and Energy Labelling Regulations 2021. This legally r...

06/09/2021

The EU looks to be getting serious about forcing phone makers to supply software updates and parts.

7 years is a long time in software but there's no reason why OEMs can't do that, at least for security updates.

Some OEMs currently barely manage 2 years of updates and many budget phones never see more than one or two minor updates. For this reason i think budget phones should be released with Android one or Go so that they can be updated easily.

It would be better of course if the software was hardware agnostic like windows or Linux distros so you could just self install Android along with a driver/app package downloaded from the OEM. This may require OEMs to offer bootloader unlocking which they argue is a security risk. However, if the OEM isn't going to support their phone anyway then it seems reasonable that they should offer bootloader unlocking (and release the code binaries or drivers) at end-of-support so that devs can build updated software and owners can update.

Smartphone tech and software has already matured so there's no longer the leaps in capability we saw from 2010-2017. Any flagship and many mid range phones from the last 3-4 years are more than capable of running whatever Google spits out and many are well overpowered for what they do.

A new phone might get you a better camera or play more demanding games but that's about it.

Germany is currently mulling over a new law that would force smartphone OEMs to deliver seven years of software updates for their devices.

20/07/2021

iFixit chief Kyle Wiens claims Apple, Samsung, and Microsoft are monopolising the supply chain and designing products to prevent users from being able to easily repair them.

19/07/2021

“Planned obsolescence” is a phrase right-to-repair advocates want banished from the language and increasingly they’re getting support from governments across

19/07/2021

An outspoken Tesla repairer has shared a worrying story about a customer's Model 3 that demonstrates Tesla's cartel-like servicing behaviour.

13/07/2021

https://www.facebook.com/167649839918105/posts/5035105479839159/

25/04/2021

It’s unreasonable to expect that the problem of electronic waste—the smartphones, laptops, monitors, and TVs crowding landfills around the globe—can be solved at any scale by individuals. We need an industry-wide reckoning.