“Smart” Washing Machines are Dumb
For a machine designed to pour water on clothes and spin them around, “smart” washing machines are over-engineered and inconvenient.
California Passes Right-to-Repair Act Guaranteeing Seven Years of Parts for Your Phone.
Right in Big Tech’s backyard, too.
To study the history of the automobile is to also be a student of technological progress — as with each decade’s models come new innovations to make them better handling, more corrosion…
Water gets into 2018 Ford truck tail light assembly, corrodes connectors, disables vehicle, $5600 repair.
Midwest Farmers Aren't Allowed to Fix Their Own Tractors. And Many Right-to-Repair Bills Are Stalled.
Farmers and ranchers across the Midwest say regulation is the only path forward to fixing their own equipment. But there’s been strong opposition to right to repair legislation, as manufacturers argue they’ve provided pathways for quick repairs.
iFixit Tears Down a McDonald’s Ice Cream Machine, Demands DMCA Exemption For It.
Public Knowledge and iFixit want the right to repair commercial kitchen gear.
Odd. I wondered why friends from Chicago always order tuna salad whenever they visit.
Surprise: Apple Now Supports California’s Right-to-Repair. 😳
And now to meteorologist Louis Rossmann with expected impacts of the forecasted snowstorm in Hell.
Mousetrap, a new GUI engine for Julia.
Initial commit was June 11. Documentation is here.
NHTSA, Massachusetts Attorney General Reach Agreement on Voter-Approved 'Right to Repair' Law
See also PIRG's statement NHTSA Walks Back Anti-Repair Letter, but Questions Remain, including link to the NHTSA's letter.
Security Industry Association Lobbies States for Exemptions from Right to Repair.
> Holly Borgmann, vice president of government affairs for ADT, Boca Raton, Fla., said that while these types of laws may make sense for some industries, tools and manuals that could enable someone to disarm an alarm or reroute an emergency signal should remain proprietary. Borgmann is an SIA board member and vice chair of the SIA government affairs committee.
A security system that can be repaired without notifying the monitoring service, nor sending any suspicious signals, is a security system that can be defeated independent of right to repair legislation. Likewise, if the monitoring service can't verify repairs to be authorized by the customer, they can't handle response to an ordinary alarm.
The site specific data of an alarm panel is generally uploaded remotely by the monitoring service using the communication system through which the panel is monitored. That data is retained by the monitoring service in the event it needs restored, or for use as a template should it need modified. This is a trivial operation if there are any doubts regarding the integrity of the programming.
Canon Is Getting Away With Printers That Won’t Scan Sans Ink — But HP Might Pay.
Remember when Canon got sued? The plaintiffs settled, I’m afraid.
Iowa Driver's License Manual, page 10, § 2.8 Traffic Signals.
ibid., page 15, § 2.21 Intersections.
I flunked Sunday school, so I'll take the item description on its word that it's a "great way to give witness to God's truth in the Holy Bible."
Why E-bike Companies Are Embracing Recycling While Fighting Repair.
E-bikes are a climate-friendly way to get around, but the industry opposes laws that would make them easier to fix.
"In a letter sent to New York Governor Kathy Hochul in December, People for Bikes asked that e-bikes be excluded from the state’s forthcoming digital right-to-repair law... The letter cited 'an unfortunate increase in fires, injuries and deaths attributable to personal e-mobility devices' including e-bikes. Many of these fires, People for Bikes claimed in the letter, 'appear to be caused by consumers and others attempting to service these devices themselves,' including tinkering with the batteries at home. Before Hochul signed the right-to-repair bill, it was revised to exempt e-bikes.
"Asked for data to back up the claim that e-bike fires were being caused by unauthorized repairs, Lovell said that it was 'anecdotal, from folks that are on the ground in New York.'"
Recommend also the seminal TMRC dictionary for several terms absent here, plus some memorably elegant definitions:
Kludge: A crock that works.
Crock: A kludge that doesn't work.
Same again true of Peter Samson's original 1959 and 1960 editions.
USB-C iPhone Modder Makes AirPods Case Battery Easier to Replace.
Replacing glue with screws.
Ah, just picked up a T480s Thinkpad earlier this week, installed Manjaro Cinnamon. Writing this reply on it now.
Framework’s laptop proves that it can be easy to repair your devices at home. But most companies won’t let you.
Congress is Preventing Us from Fixing McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines
Entered into the record of today's hearing by Congressman Fry (R-SC).
Republican House Leader Matt Hall quoted in the article: "offering food stamps to the rich does nothing to put food on the tables of Michiganders in need.”
But distribute $1.5 billion to the rich through the Strategic Outreach and Attraction Reserve fund and Matt will reassure you that it helps create jobs.
Congress is Preventing Us from Fixing McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines
Entered into the record during today's hearing by Congressman Fry (R-SC)
Massachusetts Right to Repair Committee Responds to NHTSA Obstruction of Automotive Data Access Law.
In the ongoing “right to repair” lawsuit in Massachusetts, in which the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently agreed with the plaintiff Alliance for Automotive…
LED Light Bulb DIY Repair at Home.
LED Light Bulb DIY Repair at Home. ToolBoom Online Store – measuring & soldering equipment, ultrasonic cleaners, network service equipment, fiber optic equipment, hand tools, desk lamps
I don't propose any and every repair guide on the Internet relevant to post; we could easily drown in them.
What sets this one apart? Not sure why, but it never occurred to me that LED lightbulbs could be repaired.
Almost want to set up a drop box for burned out LED bulbs to give it a try. I don't imagine them equally repairable. Provided it caught on as a niche hobby, I expect something on the order of Open Repair Data could be collected on this topic alone.
As I write this reply, three buttons appear below the text dialog, "Reply," "Cancel" and "Preview." Not having deleted the text from dialog, nor committed to "Reply" or "Cancel," if I now decide to view your profile on this page by clicking your user name, it has no effect. This appears true of all links except !main and those to off-site URLs, for example, the donation heart you mentioned.
I also observe the "Cancel" button is not offered when typing a reply to your initial post.
6 Degrees in Bucktown had them for 13 years, but closed down last year. The owner was the daughter of Paul Keefner of Bachmann & Keefner Drug Store in Springfield, the last in the city to still have a lunch counter when it closed in 2004.
I speculate that horseshoes will migrate north as poutine migrates south, eventually to breed a hybrid called a "mooseshoe."
i really miss the (relative) locality of the old BBS days
I was recalling BBS days with @TurtleTourParty's "99.9999% uptime is overrated" remark. We really have become spoiled in little better than a quarter century. The typical BBS had one phone line. Once you got past a busy signal, you had to economize your time online to give other users a chance. You'd install an offline reader to download new mail, disconnect, reply at leisure, and upload when you got back in.
Aside from the local quality (enforced by a forgotten fact-of-life called "long distance charges," defined as "not far outside city limits"), you never posted anything to discover someone else had replied simultaneously, because you were preventing them from doing so. I have fond memories of message boards that were games designed around this fact.
Have not tried it yet, but this promises to recapture some feel of the "good ol' days." I wish it included a sound effect of that satisfying "connected" modem squawk when you fired it up.
I found it curious, back in December, that Twitter suppressed tweets notifying followers of a Mastodon address, acknowledging no such threat from links to other social media companies, including a few that have in shorter work surpassed Twitter's user base.
Similar behavior from Reddit briefly banning r/KbinMigration. There's been a r/RedditAlternatives sub for over eleven years. Awkward if they suddenly decided that to be spam. For nearly as long, there's been r/Facebook providing unofficial tech support for its users. Upon resolving their issue, one easily supposes they return to looking at ads on that hellhole rather than those on Reddit. That one, I'm confident, was subject to no interruption at all.
My preference is usually Chicago style, but this Detroit stuff will do.
"I don't know, maybe Deliverance isn't intense enough, how about we pair it with A Clockwork Orange?" -- The Green Meadows Twin, Summer 1975.