A century of hair clippings show lead exposure rates have plummeted There’s no safe level of exposure to lead—but a small, strange study shows we’ve made incredible progress in recent decades

💇‍♀️ Turns out, you can analyze anything: Hair clippings over the past 100 years show rates of lead exposure plummeted, thanks to regulation. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-ce...

#Sustainability #Food #Health #RightToRepair #GoodNewsletter

Ik stuurde een mailtje en had BINNEN 7 MINUTEN een nieuw UPS pickup request in mn mailbox...

#RightToRepair #Warrenty

@tinoeberl bis die fertig sind, weiß niemand mehr, wie man repariert.

#RechtaufReparatur #righttorepair

Your catalog demands a $1,400 entire-spine replacement for a simple pivot failure that we can't order in Mexico!

To make it worse, this failure matches Recall 21S54 exactly, but our VIN isn't "flagged." We just want to repair our gear and keep moving!
#RightToRepair #FordTransit #BuiltFordTough

Samsung's flagship still caught between innovation and repair denial iFixit awards Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra 5/10 for repairability despite design improvements, as screen repairs cost $399 and remain nearly impossible

Samsung's flagship still caught between innovation and repair denial

#Samsung #RightToRepair #GalaxyS26 #TechNews #AusNews

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Local Barley Becomes Local Booze at a Wisconsin Distillery Prioritizing Ag Sustainability - Inside Climate News Farmers, distillers and other businesses are taking part in a “grain to glass” sourcing system that eliminates waste and keeps agriculture business within communities.

🥃 "Grain to glass" systems eliminate agriculture waste and emissions by producing small batch booze. insideclimatenews.org/news/0902202...

#Sustainability #Food #Health #RightToRepair #GoodNewsletter

John Deere, Garmin, and Philips may have undermined military right to repair Did their lobbying efforts pay off?

#JohnDeere, #Garmin, and #Philips may have undermined #military #righttorepair

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RobinReach

🚨 WARNING: Why you no longer own your car. You paid for the wheels yet subscriptions, remote locks, and repair gatekeeping are rewriting ownership. Watch now: https://youtu.be/rYYE283Aopk?si=quYsnr0HCOWlWLyz 🚗🔒 #RightToRepair #CarTech #ConsumerRights #Ownership

Psion Siena case clip partial repair (experimental, hence the rather ugly tape)

Psion Siena case repair (closed)

Siena repair - not pretty, but this is proof-of-principle - I will tidy it up with proper tape.

A dinky wee Psion Siena in all its retrocomputing / permacomputing glory - look at the layout of the number buttons! It's a fantastic little programmable scientific calculator, running EPOC16 - the operating system for the incredible Psion Series 3+ range of handheld computers from the 1990s

A few more Psion Siena repairs - tape for proof of principle - I'll be tidying this up in due course (with bookbinding tape - my fave). I'm starting to like the Siena again - it's limited, but dinky, super portable and crazy retro. #Psion #Retrocomputing #Permacomputing #RightToRepair

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EPA Affirms Farmers’ Right to Repair The agency issued new guidance on a Biden-era policy, which prohibits manufacturers from using environmental laws to prevent repair work.

🚜 Farmers have a right to repair their own equipment, the EPA rules -- and manufacturers can't falsely claim environmental reasons for preventing them. civileats.com/2026/02/05/e...

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Circularity meets consumer power in the tech repair fight The interests of consumer rights groups and circularity advocates are intersecting in the right-to-repair movement, as tech brands rework products to satisfy new laws.

🔧 Turns out, when you enact laws to punish producers of products designed to be trashed, they'll start making more that can be repaired for longer use -- benefiting consumer's bottom line and reducing landfill waste. trellis.net/article/circ...

#Sustainability #Tech #Circularity #RightToRepair

🕹️ Switch 2 bekommt möglicherweise wechselbaren Akku

EU-Vorgaben ab 2027 machen es nötig, dass Handheld-Konsolen einfach reparierbar sind. Nintendo soll ein neues Modell der Switch 2 planen, das diesen Regeln entspricht.

USA & Japan: Release unklar

#NintendoSwitch2 #RightToRepair #GamingNews

The finest explanation yet made of why enshittification is coming for your kit The Norwegian Consumer Council has made the definitive explainer on enshittification — and the questions it raises for camera owners are uncomfortably pertinent.

Do you actually own the camera you just bought? Or have you licensed it subject to your manufacturer's marketing department? The Norwegian Consumer Council has made the definitive explainer on enshittification — and it's very much our problem too. buff.ly/b3X9akF #Enshittification #RightToRepair

Monday: #Arduino Days interview #3! #OpenSource, #RightToRepair, social #robotics – and more spoilers?? Julián Caro Linares of @officialarduino.bsky.social chats with @ishotjr.bsky.social & myself 👀

Mar. 23, 10am PDT / 5pm UTC:
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Framework founder Nirav reviews Apple Neo vs Framework Laptop 12 💻 vs 💻
(Comparative Teardown)

Framework founder Nirav Patel gets the new Macbook Neo and takes it apart to see how it compares with our Framework Laptop 12. From repairability to design choices, this comparative teardown explores […]

RE: https://aus.social/@Unixbigot/116275208245815723

> Parts to electrify a bicycle cost a few hundred dollars, #eBikes #BikeTooter #RightToRepair -- @Unixbigot what controller setup do you like? I'm particularly curious about #openSource firmware/ hardware (and how to get things to plug […]

Nintendo redesigns Switch 2 for European battery swap requirement Nintendo is redesigning the Switch 2 for Europe to comply with new EU battery regulations requiring user-replaceable batteries by February 2027.

Nintendo redesigns Switch 2 for European battery swap requirement

#Nintendo #Switch2 #RightToRepair #EU #AusNews

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Opinion | Trucks and tractors reflect a bubbling frustration in rural America The right-to-repair movement is a bellwether. Which party will recognize the stakes?

Good article on #RightToRepair in the Washington Post. Gift link, which does require a free account: wapo.st/4uKLa2Z

Nintendo bows to EU right-to-repair rules with Switch 2 battery overhaul Nintendo plans a European Switch 2 revision with removable battery to meet EU right-to-repair regulations by February 2027 deadline.

Nintendo bows to EU right-to-repair rules with Switch 2 battery overhaul

#Nintendo #Switch2 #RightToRepair #EU #AusNews

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You know it broski! #righttorepair

Var hittar man servicemanualer och kopplingsscheman för nya bilar egentligen?

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Exactly the reason why i try to repair anything i can. And tinkering is fun!
Often its an old capacitor needing a replacement etc.
Getting a soldering iron and multimeter is a great choice.

Planned obsolescence sucks, these businesses practices need to be called out and proscribed. #righttorepair

Nieuwe Nintendo Switch 2 krijgt vervangbare batterij Het lijkt erop dat Nintendo opnieuw aan de hardware sleutelt. Volgens nieuwe berichtgeving werkt het bedrijf aan een aangepast model van de Nintendo Switch 2 met een opvallende upgrade: een vervangbare batterij. Klinkt als goed nieuws. Europese regels dwingen verandering af De informatie komt van het Japanse medium Nikkei, dat stelt dat dit nieuwe model specifiek is ontworpen met het oog op Europese wetgeving.

#Nintendo werkt aan een #Switch2 met vervangbare batterij om te voldoen aan EU “right to repair”-regels 🔧🔋 #Nintendo #Switch2 #Gaming #RightToRepair

Nintendo faces EU pressure on user-replaceable batteries New European law requires portable devices to have user-replaceable batteries by February 2027, forcing Nintendo to redesign the Switch 2.

Nintendo faces EU pressure on user-replaceable batteries

#Nintendo #Switch2 #RightToRepair #EURegulation #AusNews

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The Olympics are ditching PFAS waxes — and the ‘ridiculous’ speed they gave skiers A key source of speed is gone, as concerns over toxic “forever chemicals” reshape Olympic skiing and the science behind winning on snow.

⛷️ The Milan Cortina Games were the first Olympics to ban fluorinated ski waxes, which increase speed but deliver "forever chemicals" to the environment. And guess what? People still skied fast. grist.org/culture/the-...

#Sustainability #Food #Health #RightToRepair #GoodNewsletter

RobinReach

STOP: Why Your Tech Is Built To Die
Your phone isn't ghosting you; it's on a timer. See how planned obsolescence hits your wallet and the planet.
Watch now: https://youtu.be/KhtJq_n5L_s?si=NtBrHH3r2fHe0PPF 🚨⏳🔧♻️
#RightToRepair #PlannedObsolescence #Tech #Sustainability

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So I was going to let the Jensen post breathe. Then Micron's CEO told Wall Street the same day that autonomous cars will need 300GB of RAM each — server territory — and called robotics a "20-year growth vector." […]

The US Farmers Saving Palestinian Seeds More than 40 growers nationwide are working to preserve heirloom seeds, along with the history, tradition, and identity they contain.

🌱 American farmers in the Seed Protectors Project are working together to preserve heritage seeds from Gaza, where nearly 99% of farmland is currently unable to be cultivated. civileats.com/2026/02/03/t...

#Sustainability #Food #Health #RightToRepair #GoodNewsletter