Right to Repair Comes for the Cyberdeck
Home-built portable computers are a hobby. They are also a protest against sealed hardware.
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Series: Repair Culture
8_RECORDSFixing, salvaging and refusing to throw things away.
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The Right-to-Repair Scorecard for Street Hardware
repairdesk.example.com
Which phones, scooters and payment terminals can actually be fixed? Someone finally scored them.
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Note: Why We Stopped Using Tracking Pixels
We turned off every analytics script. Traffic did not collapse. Our consciences improved.
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Photo Essay: The Cable Graveyard Under the Old Exchange
Dead copper, live fibre and the retired technicians who still map what is connected.
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INTERMEDIATE
The Last Neon Signmaker on Canal Street
Forty years of bending glass, and finally, an apprentice.
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Building a Home Lab From Salvaged Server Parts
A step-by-step build log, from a pile of e-waste to a rack that hosts our photos and calendars.
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Note: Our Corrections Policy, Now in Plain Words
When we get it wrong, we say so, fix it and show what changed.
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Photo Essay: Portrait of a Repair Café
Kettles, radios and the volunteers who refuse to let anything go to landfill.