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“Apple should come clean, admit the manufacturing deficiency, and extend their warranty on this issue to 24 months.” Continue reading Apple Acknowledges iPhone ‘Touch Disease,’ Wants You to Pay $149 to Fix It
All Apple laptops are now un-upgradeable and are therefore disposable. Continue reading The New MacBook Pros Mark the End of Upgradeable Apple Computers
Being recycled is the worst thing that can happen to a new smartphone. Continue reading Samsung’s Galaxy Note 7 Recall Is an Environmental Travesty
A fun thread over at the EEVblog forum starts off with [TerraHertz]’s triangle-peg, square-hole capacitor repair job and goes entertainingly down-hill from there.
Everything from horrifying eBay purchases to work (horror) stories can be found in this thread. But you can learn something too. Did you know the correct way to fix a mercury switch stored in the incorrect orientation is to whack it against a table really hard?
We enjoyed the cigarette box shroud used to fix a graphics card with a defective fan. We’re still not sure about the person who managed to Dremel bits off a graphics …read more
Continue reading Feel Better About Yourself With These Ugly Repairs
[Quinn Dunki] has brought yet another wayward import tool into her garage. This one, all covered in cosmoline and radiating formaldehyde fumes, is a horizontal bandsaw.
Now, many of us have all have some experience with this particular model of horizontal saw. It waits for us at our work’s machine shop, daring us to rely on it during crunch time. It lingers in the corner of our hackerspace’s metalworking area, permanently stuck in the vertical position; at least until someone finally removes that stripped screw. Either that or it’s been cannibalized for its motor, the castings moldering in a corner …read more
Continue reading How To Have an Above Average Time With a Cheap Horizontal Bandsaw
Apple continues to pretend that the touchscreens of thousands of iPhone 6 Plus devices are spontaneously breaking due to an engineering flaw. Continue reading The Hell of Owning an iPhone 6 Plus With ‘Touch Disease’
Thousands upon thousands of iPhone 6 Pluses are spontaneously breaking under normal use and are being replaced with devices that have the same design flaw. Continue reading Apple Is Still Ignoring One of the Biggest iPhone Engineering Flaws of All Time
Oh sure, the thought of owning a happy whirring drill press of your very own is exciting, but have you really thought about it? It’s a big responsibility to welcome any tool into the home, even seemingly simple ones like a drill press. Lubricants, spindle runout, chuck mounts, tramming, and more [Quinn Dunki], of no small fame, helps us understand what it needs for happy intergration into its new workshop.
[Quin] covers her own drill press adventure from the first moments it was borne into her garage from the back of a truck to its final installation. She chose one …read more
Continue reading Likely Everything You Need To Know Before Adopting A Drill Press
Nespresso is a variant of disposable single serve coffee pods with an extensive, expensive, and proprietary accessory line. After selling inconvenient bits of his soul for convenience and, admittedly, fairly tasty shots of coffee, [Chriss Lott] was predictably betrayed by his Nespresso Jura coffee machine.
Rather than simply exchange more local currency for a replacement revenue guarantee for the Nestle conglomerate, he did what any self-respecting hacker would do and tried to fix it himself. Unfortunately he quickly found their cunningly oval shaped security screws to be more trouble than his time was worth. He listed his remaining coffee pods …read more
Continue reading The Most Traveled Security Screwdriver, A Hacker’s Tale
After 29 years in business, Tekserve’s old employees and most loyal customers said goodbye with an old-fashioned auction. Continue reading A Funeral for Tekserve, New York City’s Most Iconic Computer Repair Shop