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Special shoutout to the repair site iFixit who are now on the Fediverse, you can follow them at:

➡️ @iFixit

They provide repair forums and free repair guides for phones, computers, consoles, kitchen equipment, tools, medical devices, cars etc. They also review and tear down new gadgets to see how repairable they are.

Repairing your existing stuff is much, much better for the environment than buying replacements.

#KentUK #RepairCafé celebrates decade of reducing waste

Story by Zac Sherratt - BBC News, March 8, 2025

"A Kent repair café which has become a 'cornerstone of sustainability and community spirit' is celebrating a decade since its launch.

"#FavershamRepairCafé runs on the second Saturday of each month at The Spire Church, and this month's session will be exactly 10 years since it began.

"The café's volunteers have repaired more than 2,800 items, from household appliances to cherished personal belongings.

"Founder and chairman Prof Martin Charter said he and the team were looking forward to reducing waste and strengthening community bonds for years to come.

"Prof Charter began a series of pilot repair cafés in 2014 before officially launching the project the following year.

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"More than 6,000 people have visited the café, all playing their part in diverting an estimated 7.5 tonnes of waste from #landfills and saving roughly 70.1 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions."

Source:
msn.com/en-us/news/world/repai
#RepairCafes #RepairCafesUK #SolarPunkSunday #FixIt #RightToRepair

www.msn.comMSN

Although expensive to what I always paid for a mobile, the Fairphone seems an interesting option, mainly because of the *fair* part. If it is really a fairer phone, it has a cost.

Now deciding between the original Fairphone (@Fairphone), possibly 5, but still considering the 4, or the one with Murena (@murena), €50+ in this case.

P. S. I went for a Fairphone 5. I hope it can arrive next week before my vacation.

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Update. "Years of hard work have made it possible for us to celebrate the #RightToRepair movement time and time again. It's a group effort —folks like #iFixit, who provide repair guides and repairability scores; the #RepairAssociation, who’ve helped lead the movement in state legislatures; and of course, people like you who contact local representatives, are the reason this movement has gained so much momentum."
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/righ

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Right to Repair: A Prime Example of Grassroots AdvocacyGood old-fashioned grassroots advocacy is one of the best tools we have right now for making a positive change for our civil liberties online. When we unite toward a shared goal, anything is possible, and the right to repair movement is a prime example of this.In July of last year, EFF and many...

A colleague gave me an old Macbook Pro 9.2, which was too slow even to open Safari or read emails...

After upgrading the ram from 4 to 16gb, changing the old HDD for a new SSD, installing #Fedora... I made a Zoom call while I had 20 tabs open on Firefox, with Nextcloud, Thunderbird, Telegram and Emacs open in the background.

But the thing that amazed me was the strange sense of #empowerment (?) I felt during the process.

Well electric cars, hell, cars in general these days come with proprietary software that totally screws over the buyer's ability to fix their own damn car. It's bullshit, plain and simple.

Right to repair isn't just some fancy slogan, it's a fucking right. Period. I'm all in on open source software and the freedom to dig into the code, learn from it, and yeah, fix it if I need to. That's how it should be, not this locked-down crap they're pushing on us.

Sadly, this is the world most people are forced into with big tech companies owning and operating most of the software we and many companies use today.

I would recommend anyone reading this to give #Linux a try if you haven't already used it. It's open-source, customizable, and gives you the freedom to really make your system your own.

❤ In short: I love the right to repair my own tech!

Highlighting for #SolarPunkSunday:

@breadandcircuses Let's talk about #Degrowth...

"Imagine an economy designed to serve the planet and ALL its inhabitants, not just the most powerful. What might that look like?
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Countries that have overshot ecological limits would scale back their non-essential production and consumption to lessen environmental impacts and to decarbonise more rapidly by:

❇️ Reducing reliance on cheap fossil energy
❇️ Reducing the use of material-intensive luxuries like SUVs, private jets, and oversized homes
❇️ Stopping unsustainable practices such as the industrial production of meat and the culture of fast fashion
❇️ Curbing the wealth excesses of the very rich
❇️ Promoting public transportation over private vehicle use
❇️ Fostering a culture of durability and repairability in consumer goods

Simultaneously, the focus would shift toward enhancing social progress and human well-being by:

🔷 Guaranteeing universal access to high-quality essential public services like healthcare, education, childcare, and transportation
🔷 Ensuring affordable housing and living wages for all
🔷 Implementing a public job guarantee; a nationally-funded program where the municipal government provides jobs to those willing and able to work

Embracing these changes does *not* mean rejecting technology. A balanced approach where technological innovation and efficiency improvements are pursued as long as they are sustainable, safe, and equitable should be encouraged. The focus is on using resources efficiently, distributing them fairly, and scaling down non-essential production to help societies achieve self-sufficiency and justice."
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LEARN MORE ➡️ explore.degrowth.net/degrowth/

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kolektiva.social/@breadandcirc
#Degrowth #SelfSufficiency #RightToRepair #Decarbonize #SolarPunk

explore.degrowth.netA Degrowth Economy Explained | Explore degrowthThis page is dedicated to illustrating a transformative vision for the future: a degrowth economy. Here, we invite you to explore an alternative …

saying this into the void but i had this old walkman with a busted belt. i found the service manual and learned you have to desolder like 10 connections to fix it.

i’ve only tried soldering once and absolutely fried that project 😕it wasn’t working anyways, but the risk of breaking this thing kept me from trying to fix it for like a year.

long story short, i fucking did it. it took like 4 hours but i actually pulled it off. hearing it play for the first time was magical🥹#righttorepair

Could we agree that #worldBicycleRelief 's #bicycle is not really #solarpunk ?

worldbicyclerelief.org/a-bette

Sure, it's nice it's durable and given to people in need.

But it's not really repairable. Custom, copyrighted components designed to keep the company afloat, available only through controllable humanitarian channels.

I'd take well-standardized open source any day.

World Bicycle ReliefThe Bike | World Bicycle ReliefThe bike is what sets us apart. Built for distance and durability, our Buffalo Bicycle empowers people in rural communities to thrive.

I'm gonna list out my interests, and there's a ton of 'em. Classic autism move, getting obsessed with weird topics that stick with you forever.

Heads up, #Fediverse, you might lose it when I drop 100+ hashtags in one post. That's just how autism rolls I guess.

## Interests and Obsessions

Substances and Legalization:
#Drugs #LSD #Shrooms #Psychedelics #THC #Psilocybin

Tech and Privacy:
#Linux #Debian #QubesOS #GrapheneOS #GooglePixel #Auxio #AntennaPod #PGP #Obtainium #PeerTube #FreeTube #Privacy #Security #Thunderbird #CapyReader #RSS #AtomFeeds #NewPipe #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Openreads #Signal #LocalSend #ThinkPad #FreeSoftware #FSF #ElementaryOS #Elementary #PaldoLinux #GNOME #i3wm #Monero #Mullvad #iVPN #LinusTorvald #Fairphone #DivestOS #Tor #TailsOS #Whonix

Politics and Activism:
#AnarchoSyndicalism #Anarchism #Syndicalism #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #LGBT #TransRights #HumanRights #WorkersRights #Unions #Decentralization #Organizing #GrassRoots #DirectAction #AntiCapitalism #FuckSpotify #Piratpartiet #PirateParty #Piracy #ThePirateBay #EdwardSnowden #Wikileaks #JulianAssange #MeredithWhittaker #RichardStallman #RightToRepair

Music and Artists:
#ZoëStraub #Bandcamp #ShadowOfIntent #Alestorm #AlisonSudol #CœurDePirate #RussianPop #YuliaSavicheva #SavichevaMusic #Music

Content Creators:
#DougDoug #DistroTube #MattRose #TheHatedOne #EricParker #The8BitGuy #BernadetteBanner #LynnSaga #LukeSmith #UndineAlmani #DarkViperAU

History and Tragic Events:
#NorthKorea #WW2 #ColdWar #KoreanWar #Unit731 #NuclearWeapons #USSR

Fashion and Identity:
#GenderFluidity #Dresses #Lingerie #Pins #Buttons #Statues

Culture and Media:
#Buddhism #Warframe #Moomin #Books #Joker2019 #SocialIssues #AlternativeSocialStructures

#Traveling and Destinations:
#Austria #Vienna #Salzburg #Idlib #Pyongyang #Moscow #Bergen

Miscellaneous:
#AntiReactionContentCreators #ReactionContentBad #Crying

Yeah, I know it's a lot. But that's the beauty of an autistic brain I guess, we go deep on what fascinates us.

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Right to repair laws make it easier for individuals and organizations to fix their own stuff. They do this by, for example, requiring companies to sell parts and make manuals available, and banning “software locks” that limit who can carry out repairs. Now, @jasonkoebler reports for @404mediaco, the grassroots movement has hit a tipping point in the U.S.

404media.co/all-50-states-have

404 Media · All 50 States Have Now Introduced Right to Repair LegislationThe legislation hasn't yet passed everywhere, but all 50 states introducing some form of right to repair legislation is a "tipping point” for the right to repair movement.

It’s official: Repair Café Pittsburgh is starting April 5, 2025! 🥳 We’re partnering with Construction Junction to hold repair cafés the first Saturday each month.
We need your help to make Repair Café Pittsburgh happen! We’re looking for volunteers, repair specialists, food + beverage vendors, material donations, and sponsorships. Check out the website in our bio to get started.