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Apple won't do the repairs past 5 years in most of the country, up to 7 years in California.

But you can do it yourself. Repair kits for iPads: https://www.ifixit.com/Kits/iPad-Fix-Kits iPhones: https://www.ifixit.com/Kits/iPhone-Fix-Kits/iPhone-Battery-K...

Disclaimer: I sell these.

Good for you! There are so many organizations in the world that need top-notch skills like yours and can't afford it. I hope you're having a blast.

You're absolutely correct that this has had a huge impact. This is actually the FTC's eyeglass rule and not a separate law, something that I didn't know until they started getting involved with Right to Repair.

https://www.ftc.gov/enforcement/rules/rulemaking-regulatory-...

Correct. That exemption is for medical equipment.

California's Right to Repair bill, which got very close to passing this year, was solely focused on medical equipment. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billStatusClient.xh...

We excluded autos because the Massachusetts auto right to repair bill (most recently updated in November) covers this, and there's a nationwide MOU. Tesla is the only manufacturer that has not signed this MOU.

There is a lawsuit around that ballot initiative, and iFixit and EFF just filed an Amicus on Monday supporting the law. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/06/eff-files-amicus-brief...

Sometimes it's better to fight the giants one arena at a time.

This is a really great question.

This is so fantastic.

Absolutely! iFixit is a member and it's amazing how much progress we've made over the last few years.

This is well done!

> Support error recognition and recovery.

I totally agree with this. You have to teach critical concepts a couple different ways in case one gets skimmed over or misunderstood. We rely on visuals for this--the text should stand independent of the photo / diagram, and vice versa.

I wrote a handbook on technical writing summing up what we've learned over many years of writing iFixit repair guides. https://help.dozuki.com/Tech_Writing/chapter/0

Author here. I don't see how providing a platform to speed up security research is a bad thing.

That said, I don't have a huge problem with Apple's 'they copied our bits' complaint. That's true.

The problem is that Apple is weaponizing 1201 in a way that would be very damaging if applied in other contexts.

The individual that voted no runs an equipment dealership.

Looks like they just changed their link structure: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/operation-fix-toshiba

But we don't need your money—the project was successful and we've been teaching people to fix their Toshiba's on iFixit for years now.

Author here. We raised the money, bought the laptops, and published the manuals.

Fix away! https://www.ifixit.com/Device/Toshiba_Laptop

> Between June 1995 and January 1987, six patients were seriously injured or killed by unsafe administration of radiation from the Therac-25 medical linear accelerator.

> The Therac-25 software errors that cause radiation overexposures can be reduced down to interface errors. The first of these errors involved the entering of treatment data by the machine operator. Once an operator enters treatment information at the terminal outside of treatment room, the magnets used to filter and control radiation levels are set. There are several magnets, and the process takes about 8 seconds. If the operator makes a very, very quick change of the treatment information, within 1 second, the change is registered. Or, if the operator is rather slow about it, takes more than 8 seconds, the change is also registered. However, if the change occurs within the eight seconds it takes to set the magnets, the change is not detected and the magnets continue to be set up improperly, and thus the level of radiation is set up improperly.

> The last of the accidents occurred at the Yakima Valley Memorial Hospital. On January 17, 1987 an operator placed a patient on the turntable in the field-light position for small position verification doses. After attempting to administer the treatment dose, the machine shut down with a quick malfunction message and a treatment pause. The operator pushed the "P" button, and the machine paused again. The machine indicated that the patient had received his prescribed 7 rad of treatment. The patient, however, complained of a "burning sensation" and died three months later from complications related to the overdose (Leveson and Turner, 1993, p. 33) .

http://users.csc.calpoly.edu/~jdalbey/SWE/Papers/THERAC25.ht...

We're down to the wire in Minnesota. If you want to see the bill happen, call your reps today. A vote could happen as soon as tomorrow, but only if the noise level is high enough.

Yes! We have guides for doing Bugaboo repairs using 3D printed parts on iFixit. https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Bugaboo+Cameleon+1+and+3++Handl... https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Bugaboo+Cameleon+1+and+3+Swivel... https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/Bugaboo+Cameleon+1+and+3+Brake+...

My theory: they couldn't make it past the FCC. Managing overlapping harmonic frequencies is incredibly challenging, and gets harder the more coils that you are integrating. From patent filings, it looks like Apple’s ambitious plan was to use considerably more coils than other charging pads on the market. https://ifixit.org/blog/14883/what-finally-killed-airpower/

Right to repair laws are currently being considered in 15+ states that would accomplish #1-4.

https://repair.org/stand-up/

There are hearings in three states on the topic this week: WA, SD, and NH. Get involved! Repair.org has a simple tool to write your legislator.

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We include good T6 security bits in our Pro Tech Toolkit: https://www.ifixit.com/Store/Tools/Pro-Tech-Toolkit/IF145-30...

Hey, thanks! I had fun researching it.

Other devices use a solid-state quartz oscillator. This is a hollow mechanical frequency generator.

Simple logistics. We're launching them first in the US, then bringing them to Europe. Stay tuned!

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.

(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.

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 of their unprocessed material is now the responsibility of their landlord. https://resource-recycling.com/e-scrap/2018/07/03/ecs-refini...

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 what it's worth, that's why we published essentially the entire oManual spec for free online so you can build compatible products to IEEE 1874 without having to purchase the standard. http://www.omanual.org/

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.

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...

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 ridiculous and needs to change. Repair.org could definitely use help to fix this once and for all.