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The new Siri AI requires a flagship iPhone just to run basic local models. Apple is basically holding software updates hostage, whereas your Fedora-based fijiOS setup runs smoothly on standard hardware without a corporate tollbooth.#fijiOS #Fedora #Linux #HardwareFreedom #RightToRepair #Ewaste #Apple #WWDC2026 #KDECommunity

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Netzblockierer 2h ago

@Linux @nileane in fact, the only reason Apple complies with anything, is if they're facing a flatout ban:

That's how Apple integrated Govware Backdoors in the "P.R." China, Russia, KSA and elsewhere.
That's why Apple axed their proprietary garbage Lightning connector:
- The @EUCommission literally made it illegal to sell any phone which uses any other connector than USB-C in the EU!

GAFAMs literally expect the U.S. government to lobby if not extort other governments into their bs.!

The EU needs to triple down on privacy now!!
- Same goes for Repairability!

#Apple #Sarcasm #Commentary #EUpol #Govware #Backdoors #China #Russia #GAFAMs #EU #USpol #extortion #Lobbyism #RightToRepair #Repair #Repairability

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Netzblockierer 8h ago

@koopa512 because Anti-Repair - Design is more profitable for the corporations that want you to buy new instead of parts!

#AntiRepairDesign #Enshittification #RightToRepair #Repairability #Repair #corporations #Greedflation #greed

Frankie ✅9h ago

Broken speaker? Finicky zipper? Anticonsumerist Repair Cafes urge you to fix it instead of pitch it

https://apnews.com/article/repair-cafes-economy-anticonsumerism-affordability-buy-nothing-d3acac3ec2aae5e85294b34f0f4764b8

#tech #technology #news #technews #anticonsumerism #righttorepair

Repair Cafes urge consumers to fix their goods, not toss them

Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism. The cafes and other efforts try to offer an alternative to mass-produced, disposable goods that have dominated the economy for the last half-century. Repair Cafes are free events where volunteers with technical know-how help neighbors fix household items. They started in the Netherlands with a single cafe in 2009 and grew to a global nonprofit. At a recent event in New Paltz, New York, volunteers helped attendees fix items from lamps and knives to sound mixers and balky zippers. There’s also the Buy Nothing Project and a growing number of tool-lending libraries. All are dedicated to repairing, trading, and giving instead of buying and selling.

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Florida Digital Rights Assoc.23h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@404mediaco/116710755666929467

If you don't get to own the computer in the tractor, take the computer out of the tractor.

As frustrating as companies can make technology, there is always the route that respects you as a person, even if it takes a while to pave the path.

#RightToRepair #ConsumerRights #Tech #DigitalRights

ORCACommander 1d ago

Couple of nights ago my UPS did a load test and decided the batteries failed. Not a terribly big deal. These batteries have a 3 year lifespan and I managed to get 5 on them. However the OEM wanted $350 for a new battery sled. Instead I took the sled out, it contains 4 run of the mill battery cells. Went to my local battery shop and bought new cells for $130. This is Why DIY Repair Is Important. I avoided a week and down time on my UPS and saved $220 with off the shelf parts an hour of my time.
#DIY #UPS #BatteryBackUp #RightToRepair #Batteries

jdkiser 1d ago

Kid's iPad won't charge any more, a fucking week after the warranty expired. Because it's a fucking piece of shit made by a bunch of assholes. Anyway, kid is bummed out but wants to move on and build a cyberdeck so there's that. Also fuck Apple. #apple #ipad #freesoftware #cyberdeck #righttorepair

DoomsdaysCW 2d ago

Demand Is Booming for New #NoTech, #Repairable #Tractor

"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."

by Jason Koebler
Jun 3, 2026

"The secondary market for decades old, low-tech #JohnDeereTractors has been booming for years as farmers have sought reliable tractors that they can actually fix without having to deal with John Deere’s repair monopoly. A Canadian company has seen that demand and came up with a radical thought: What if they made a new, repairable, 'no-tech' tractor to solve what has become a gigantic pain point for farmers?

"Alberta’s #UrsaAg says that it has been inundated with demand after announcing its tractor, which costs roughly half as much as a Deere and has the benefit of not being a repair nightmare. We have for years covered the frustration that farmers have felt as they have been locked out of their Deere tractors with digital rights management systems that prevent them from fixing their machinery, tractors that won’t run because of minor sensor failures, and crops that literally die on the vine as they wait for an 'authorized' repair person to fix tractors during critical harvesting periods.

"Ursa Ag markets its tractors as '#NoFrills' and 'built to last.' Ursa Ag’s Doug Wilson told me that the company designed the tractor because of a need in the marketplace for a new machine that isn’t loaded with tech and is easy to maintain. The company follows in the footsteps of consumer electronics companies like #Fairphone, which makes a repairable smartphone and #Framework, which makes modular, repairable #laptops. The demand Ursa Ag has seen is part of the backlash to manufacturer repair #monopolies and the injection of #technology and #InternetConnectedSensors and terms of use into even the most basic of gadgets.

" 'I talk to farmers every day and I hear from farmers every day about how they went out and bought machinery from 1987 so that it wouldn’t have a computer on it,' Wilson said. 'All of this came from a simple discussion with a customer who wanted to be able to turn [the tractor] on at the start of the day, to use it, and shut it off at the end of the day. It needed to work, so that’s what we built.'

"Ursa Ag’s tractor has been hyped in agriculture circles after Wilson showed the tractor off at a Canadian farm show and it was featured by Farms.com. Wilson said more than a thousand farmers have contacted him after that show, from roughly 30 countries. 'I got a handwritten letter from a farmer in France who doesn’t own a computer and wanted us to mail him information about the tractors,' he said."

#SolarPunkSunday #LowTech #LoTech #RightToRepair #Farmers

Demand Is Booming for New No Tech, Repairable Tractor

"There is consumer pressure to back away from technology that is unnecessary to perform everyday tasks."

404 Media

Mycotropic 2d ago

I changed the battery in my Lenovo TB-X505F which was a little bit challenging. The batter is like $12-$16 which isn't bad. Lots of the tiniest screws you've ever seen and you have to take them out of the battery bracket thingie in order to ease the old battery out.
I put the bracket back in immediately and it was gluey enough to capture the new battery. Two cables to unplug and another bracket that holds down the battery plug. That one pulls straight up but the other cable that covers the battery pulls out in the direction of the wire.

Plugging them back in is a PITA because the cable wouldn't quite lined up with the plug and it's a couple of mm wide so I can't actually see it. The guys who do this on YouTube have apparently done it a million times and I haven't so getting that tiny click sound was pretty awesome.

The power and sound switches aren't attached so they'll fall out anyway and I needed a loupe to get them back in place correctly.

Plugged it in to USB and got a charging message so I THINK that all is well. Clicked the back on and only ended up with one "extra" screw!

#RightToRepair

Repair Cafe Barry 2d ago

Today is our repair cafe at Barry library. We're there from 10 til 1 to fix your broken items for free!

Spread the word.

#RepairCafe #RightToRepair #Wales