So, just finished this month's Repair Cafe in #Regina.

There's a depressing pattern where small #appliances, typically #kitchen stuff, fail after just a year or so. The warranties are invariably one year. Nobody, especially the manufacturer, offers service - "Just buy a new one, it's cheaper" is the refrain. Of course, we're trying to "reduce, re-use, recycle" and keep this stuff out of the #landfill.

Even trying to service them is a pain, and sometimes impossible. The cases/shells of modern stuff are frequently absolute b*stards to take apart, and really new stuff now features "one-way clips" - there's literally no way to unclip the shell after it's been clicked together at the factory. You can't access the latching bit, so you have to force it and break the #clip, and then #bodge it back together somehow.

Mandating a longer #warranty, like in the EU - two years, three? - would help, because stuff would have to be designed better.

The two most frustrating from today:

1) A Keurig coffee maker, used twice, a year old. Got it apart, it had leaked water onto the back of the (massively #overcomplicated) CPU board, and shorted it out. Poof, magic smoke gone, tears in the rain, time to die, etc. Who puts the CPU directly under a join in the #water pipe?

2) A gas-powered leaf blower. Fuel line rotted, but to be able to feed new one through from the carburetor to the fuel tank, you have to take the shell apart - which requires disassembling the engine!

#RepairCafe #SK #EWaste

GitHub - sassanix/Warracker: 🛡️ Warracker is an open source, self-hostable warranty tracker to monitor expirations, store receipts, files. You own the data, your rules!

"🛡️ Warracker is an open source, self-hostable warranty tracker to monitor expirations, store receipts, files. You own the data, your rules! - sassanix/Warracker"

Link: https://github.com/sassanix/Warracker

#linkdump #receipt #tracking #warranty

NVIDIA Saw Its Warranty Claims Spike To 1000% Over Three Years #graphics #hardware #nvidia #warranty

https://www.lowyat.net/2026/389936/nvidia-saw-its-warranty-claims-spike-to-1000-over-three-years/

Never buy #ADATA / #XPG products. They suffer from #componentlottery issues, meaning they will switch components mid production if something cheaper or more convenient comes up. When your #NVMe #SSD eventually breaks down, the replacement under #warranty process is a fucking nightmare.

To compare, my NAS is using #Toshiba HDDs, and when one of them died, I quickly filed a replacement request with Toshiba, giving them the serial number of the disk and some SMART diagnostics. A shipping label was issued, and the thing was sent. Replacement arrived some weeks later.

ADATA on the other hand requires a tedious registration process, actual proof of purchase and payment for shipping to #Taiwan. This process ends abruptly, since I can't seem to find any proof of purchase anywhere. In short, the remaining 3 years warranty is fucking useless, because I forgot where I bought it.

Fuck you, ADATA.

Never buying your shit again.

PS: Backup, people. It's a thing.

#siliconlottery

Warranty Void If Regenerated

https://nearzero.software/p/warranty-void-if-regenerated

#HackerNews #Warranty #Void #If #Regenerated #warranty #void #regeneration #tech #news #software #development

CVE Alert: CVE-2018-25161 - Warrantytrack - Warranty Tracking System - https://www.redpacketsecurity.com/cve-alert-cve-2018-25161-warrantytrack-warranty-tracking-system/

#OSINT #ThreatIntel #CyberSecurity #cve-2018-25161 #warrantytrack #warranty-tracking-system