Das #repaircafe #Norderstedt feiert heute 10 jähriges Jubiläum! Gestartet mit viel Motivation und Organisationstalent fanden sich schnell kompetente "Mitarbeiter*Innen" & Mitmenschen mit "Reparaturbedarf". Ein großer Teil unserer Gründungsmitglieder hat sich hier kennengelernt.
Wir gratulieren unseren Freunden vom Repair Café Norderstedt herzlich zum Jubiläum! Vllt. schaffen wir mal ein Crossover: Repair Café in der #OWN?
Another good reason why #RightToRepair is so important. Even the US military needs this to repair their own equipment.
John Deere Must Face FTC Lawsuit Over Its Tractor Repair Monopoly, Judge Rules
Small acts of rebellion to give you back a sense of control
- Ride your bike
- Shop local and independent
- Use a website instead of an app
- Find a more ethical brand of an everyday item
- Repair something instead of replacing it
- Buy direct from an artist whose work you love
- Turn your phone off for 1 hour
- Block ads with uBlock Origin and Firefox
- Make an actual phone call to a loved one
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Add more 
Texas’ Right to Repair Bill is a Signature Away From Becoming Law - In what could be a big step forward for consumer rights, the Texas Senate recently... - https://hackaday.com/2025/06/09/texas-right-to-repair-bill-is-a-signature-away-from-becoming-law/ #righttorepair #repairhacks #texas #news
Right to Repair movement having its most productive year ever in U.S. states
Already in 2025, five states have passed six different Right to Repair bills https://pirg.org/articles/right-to-repair-movement-having-its-most-productive-year-ever-in-u-s-states/ #righttorepair #uslaw #uspol
In wenigen Wochen soll die neuen Vorschriften der Richtlinie für Ökodesign in Kraft treten – aber anscheinend will die Kommission in letzter Minute rausstreichen, dass kaputte Displays künftig auch von den Nutzenden selbst ausgetauscht werden können.
#RightToRepair
https://runder-tisch-reparatur.de/rueckschritt-droht-oekodesign-anforderungen-fuer-tablets-und-smartphones/
New headphones, meet screwdriver. A standard Phillips will do!
We cracked open Sony's WH-1000XM6 headphones to see how repairable they really are.
Check out the full teardown here: https://www.ifixit.com/News/110673/sonys-wh-1000xm6-gets-a-repair-friendly-upgrade
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#iFixit#Teardown #RightToRepair #Repairability #Sony #Headphones
Repair Cafe International has now joined the Fediverse!
Give them a warm welcome and make sure to follow them 
Want to start a Repair Café in your area?
You can!
Repair Café International enables local groups around the world to start their own:
https://www.repaircafe.org/en/join/start-your-own/
@RepairCafeInternational supports #EndOf10 to prevent #eWaste!
My son is looking to get into sewing machine repair as a business. There's demand for it up here. But search engines in 2025 are shite.
Does anyone know any good resources? Things like old manuals, online communities, forums, wikis, YouTube channels.
For example, he's got a 1928 Singer that's binding. He seems to have good instincts about what's wrong with it, but he's been unable to find a manual. He's got several others he's tinkering with, and wants understand them and become the go-to person in this area with all the knows.
I've directed him to archive.org but I suspect it might not be organized on this topic and it won't offer much community.
Any resources would be appreciated!
[Tagging him: @bamboy ]
LG is now on my shitlist. Parents' microwave carked it 2 years in.
LG caused problems for the local (Betta Electrical) retailer, refused to let the fault get repaired, will send the old microwave to landfill and send Better Electrical *store credit* to be used on a new microwave.
The local store have a qualified and accredited repairer they work with about 2 hours away, they wanted to use a different repairer in Sydney that the shop have no relationship with
#RightToRepair affects shops as well as consumers
The Right to Repair Is Law in Washington State
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/06/right-repair-law-washington-state
Above is a link to the article on the Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff blog, authored by Hayley Tsukayama @htsuka and Cory Doctorow @pluralistic
Over time, Nintendo has actively restricted repairs by refusing to sell parts, withholding repair manuals, and making it harder for independent shops and DIYers to fix common issues like Joy-Con drift. That kind of repair gatekeeping goes against everything a good score stands for.
So we updated our scoring to better reflect repair access, not just repair theory, and the Switch took a hit.
Read the full story here: https://www.ifixit.com/News/110747/why-were-nerfing-the-nintendo-switchs-repairability-score
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#RightToRepair #iFixit #NintendoSwitch #DIYRepair
We’re revising the Nintendo Switch’s repairability score.
When the Switch launched, it earned a respectable score thanks to its modular design and relatively easy repairs.
But repairability isn’t just about what’s possible—it’s about what manufacturers allow.
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#iFixit #repair #RightToRepair #Nintendo
@Paulatics @EUCommission @cbcnews Would you please tag those Senators here, so I and other #cdnpoli types can follow them too?
Have you tried framing self-hosting Canada’s public social media as a sovereignty and national security move? It would be a Canadian replacement for Twitter, where no one can impersonate (or shadow-mute) any Canadian principal.
The Liberals would likely favour having a way off Elon’s Donald-aligned platform. The NDP would likely support moving the work from Elon’s “hardcore” exploitation mill to our Government Services Union. Meanwhile, the Sam Cooper reading/listening subset of the Conservatives would favour a means to reduce foreign influence, by having a network where foreign principals cannot post. And the BQ would probably want a Quebec instance, setting the stage for other provinces to follow.
Or, especially for those aligned with the PMO, how about framing it as a geopolitical economic alignment move? The EU is making the same move. (Self-hosting could be part of a broader package of US->EU realignment, alongside bringing home the best parts of their GDPR, #DigitalMarketsAct, #DigitalServicesAct, Digital Fairness Act, and nascent #RightToRepair and Tax Justice policy and proposals. A nerd can dream.)
Tariffs on parts but not new devices? That’s a double standard. More people will choose replacement over repair. That means more e-waste, fewer domestic repair jobs, and more dependence on imported tech.
We need policies that fix the system, not punish fixers.
(Notwithstanding the rumored retaliatory tariffs, which are TBD.)
Full article: https://www.ifixit.com/News/110121/tariff-exemptions-are-terrible-news-for-electronics-repairability
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#iFixit #RightToRepair
The retro computing renaissance: why old tech is new again
https://www.xda-developers.com/the-retro-computing-renaissance-why-old-tech-is-new-again
Kännykkämaailma muuttuu kolmen viikon päästä isolla kädellä
Euroopan Unionin uusi Ecodesign-lainsäädäntö astuu voimaan 20.6. ja se vaatii mm. sen, että kaikkiin uusiin kännyköihin täytyy taata ohjelmistopäivitykset vähintään viiden vuoden ajan.
Vaatimus iskee etenkin halpoihin kännyköihin, joiden päivityslupaus on ollut yleensä kahden vuoden luokkaa.
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