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Headphone ear cups dirty? Don't throw them in the washer! Here's how you can clean them safely and effectively.
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#iFixit #headphones #cleaning #repair
Happy National Telephone Day!
Instead of continually chasing upgrades, what if we kept our smartphones for 5 years? How about 10?
That’s the mission we’re on with Back Market:
Fix it.
Pass it on.
Say no to planned obsolescence.
Because the most sustainable phone is the one you already own. Read more about our 10-year phone mission here: https://www.ifixit.com/News/109306/fix-it-then-pass-it-on-ifixit-joins-forces-with-back-market
To celebrate #EarthDay, we're giving away five Pro Tech Go toolkits to kickstart your repair journey! To enter the #giveaway:
1. Like this post.
2. Follow us.
3. Tag a friend in the comments who also follows us (each comment with a unique tag = an extra entry).
4. Bonus entry to anyone who creates a repair post with #iFixit between now and the end of the giveaway.
The giveaway will close at 11:59 PM PDT on 4/30, and we'll announce the winners the following day. Good luck, and Happy Earth Day!
Yep, the Switch 2 Joy-Cons will probably still drift because Nintendo isn't using Hall effect sensors. So, if you were thinking about upgrading, it might make more sense to swap out the joysticks in your current Joy-Cons. It's easier than you might think—and a lot more affordable.
Check out our fix kit (and accompanying guide!): https://www.ifixit.com/products/nintendo-switch-joy-con-switch-lite-gulikit-hall-effect-joystick
#iFixit #repair #NintendoSwitch
This #WITDay, we're celebrating Martine Postma. She's the activist and former journalist who started the Repair Café movement.
“I wanted to do more than just write about it,” Postma says. “More and more people don’t feel good about our throw-away society and are ready for change. [They] don’t throw away because they want to, but because they don’t know what else to do.”
Read more: https://www.ifixit.com/News/33384/the-woman-behind-the-repair-cafe-movement
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A few days ago home internet started acting funny.
At first I blamed my ISP, than #PiHole that runs on my #RaspberryPi, but none turned out to be the reason. The reason was this UPS that powers my main WiFi router base.
When I pulled the plug out of the UPS I found a cable in quite a miserable state as you can see.
Having examined further I found that a small zener diode got shorted.
Replaced it with the one with a higher voltage rating and it's back to work as expected.
repair #ifixit
New tool! Meet the iFixit ESD-Safe Hammer.
We hear you: sometimes you need a little more oomph to finish your fix. So, we engineered the world’s first hammer designed for electronics repair. It's built with a non-conductive handle, ESD-safe head, and just enough heft to "persuade" stubborn components.
Perfect for:
Glued-in batteries
Stripped screws
Stress relief
Now unavailable at iFixit.com.
@iFixit
What would be the best way to fix this issue on one of your screwdrivers?
Ever ordered a replacement part online, only to find it doesn’t fit your device?
We’re excited to introduce the Device Compatibility Checker, taking the guesswork out of finding the right part!
It's live on our store pages, and you can read more about it here: https://www.ifixit.com/News/108469/no-more-parts-guesswork-with-ifixits-device-compatibility-checker
#iFixit #repair
Replacing the battery in pre-Retina MacBooks is easier than you might think! No glue, no fuss, just a handful of screws and a sliding connector.
Check out our MacBook battery guides to replace your own: https://www.ifixit.com/Wiki/MacBook_Battery_Replacement
#repair #MacBook #electronics #iFixit
This Global #Recycling Day, let’s talk about our favorite way to reduce waste: repair!
Recycling is inefficient, complex, and time consuming. It should be the very last step in a long line of alternatives. While Reduce and Reuse are the best options, we think the missing R is Repair.
Here's why: https://www.ifixit.com/Right-to-Repair/Recycling
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#iFixit #GlobalRecyclingDay #RightToRepair
We. Love. Modular. Ports.
Did you know that MacBooks have modular USB-C ports? All that Thunderbolt speed goes straight through a small press connector. Impressive!
Better yet, if you break a port, your expensive logic board's safe and sound.
Why doesn't every laptop do this?!
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#repair #electronics #iFixit
The adult version of the kids’ game, Operation, where you remove “organs” from a patient is the game of smartphone repair.
I just replaced the battery on an old iPhone 7. I probably spent half my time just trying to seat the microscopic screws so I could put them back in.
Also at that size a Y000 screw is almost indistinguishable from a PH000 screw. The Y has a 3-way pattern and the PH is the Philips 4-way pattern. They both look just like dots to the naked eye.
Getting the case open and getting the screws back in was the hardest part of doing my own battery replacement.
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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."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/right-repair-prime-example-grassroots-advocacy
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...
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!
#Framework #Desktop wows #iFixit – even with the soldered #RAM
The main bugbear is the soldered-down memory, rather than the slot-in memory modules that allow most PCs to be upgraded to a higher capacity if required. The reason for this design choice is that Framework went with #AMD's #Ryzen AI Max processors, which feature an integrated #Radeon 8060S #GPU and need to have the #LPDDR5x memory closely coupled to enable the 256 GBps memory bandwidth for high performance.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/ifixit_framework_desktop/
The Register · Framework Desktop wows iFixit – even with the soldered RAM
#Repairability and intercompatibility are crucial!
Every year, Clara Gregori donates old laptops, tablets, and phones to Por Una Sonrisa en Africa, a Senegalese charity that supports small local projects.
With some upgrades and know-how, these laptops help local students build better lives.
Full article: https://www.ifixit.com/News/107082/how-repairability-gives-computers-a-new-life-in-senegalese-schools
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#iFixit #repair #ewaste