Dear fediverse,
what is the best resource of do's and dont's for setting up a #repaircafe ?
I guess not what I do with my own repairs : 40 boxes with half broken stuff from other people, waiting to find that single crucial part, schematic, or plans to fix it with a 3d printed part (to be designed and printed), actually converting my place in a #dumpsterdive without divers.
Neither desoldering all weird parts because weird parts are difficult to get...
#electronics #ewaste (...)
East Africa: Kabogo Warns of Looming E-Waste Crisis in East Africa: [Capital FM] Nairobi -- ICT Cabinet Secretary William Kabogo has raised alarm over the growing threat of electronic waste in East Africa, calling for urgent measures to tackle what he termed a ticking environmental time bomb. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TJkqqz #EWaste #EastAfrica #EnvironmentalCrisis #Sustainability #Recycling
How to recycle your stuff in the UK
https://it-recycle.uk/
#Recycling #UK #eWaste #Waste #SolarPunkSunday
How to recycle your electrical stuff in the UK
https://it-recycle.uk/how-to-recycle-your-electricals-in-the-uk-a-complete-guide/
#Recycling #UK #eWaste #Waste #SolarPunkSunday
Post 3: the final stage of the dead thrift store #gameboy advance revival and #repair #diy #retrogames #retrogaming #gba #gameboyadvance #nostalgia #nostalgiagaming #retro #90s #nintendo #3ds #sega #atari #hdmiout #recycle #ewaste
There is going to be a lot of e-waste after Windows 10 support ends, this October 2025.
The world truly needs a "dumb pipe" Linux distro. A distro made for newbies, that your Grandma with no technical skills could install, use, install 3rd party apps, change settings, and keep updated without touching the terminal.
#eWaste #Windows10 #Windows #Linux #Foss #OpenSource
The US #RightToRepair movement is growing as wins stack up
Story by Iris Kim, March 9, 2025
"Peter Mui, founder of #Fixit Clinic, describes his repair work as a hobby that’s gotten out of control. What started as a tool share in Berkeley, California, has turned into a volunteer-run group that has organized more than 1,300 repair events around the country. At Fixit Clinics, people can bring any broken household item — from worn socks to broken toasters — and learn how to make them functional again.
"'During the last few years, interest in repair has exploded,' Mui said.
"He attributes this cultural shift to a growing awareness about the #environmental impact of #EWaste, as well as a raft of 'right-to-repair' laws passing across the U.S. Historically, manufacturers of computers, cars and tractors have cited copyright law to claim exclusive repair rights, allowing them to sue independent repair companies while preventing consumers from finding lower-cost alternatives.
"But in six states — California, Colorado, Minnesota, Maine, New York and Oregon — #RightToRepair laws have been passed to protect consumers’ ability to repair or modify their products instead of having to go through the manufacturer. Oregon’s law is the most recent, passing in 2024 and going into effect in January.
"As of March, right-to-repair bills had been introduced in all 50 states, and 20 state legislatures are currently debating such bills.
"The laws take different forms. Some narrowly target automobile manufacturers while others are broad enough to cover all consumer electronics. Though bipartisan federal legislation for automobile repair stalled last year, it was reintroduced last month."
Read more:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/the-right-to-repair-movement-is-growing-as-wins-stack-up/ar-AA1Ay4hH
#PlannedObsolescence #SolarPunkSunday #RepairCafes #ReuseRepairRecycle
Overall it sounds like a decent idea based on my understanding, but getting it into practical and working form will take a lot of time and tireless effort.
And it's an effort which many commercial corporations would not want to take in the next several decades. If they make this method of extraction from waste mandatory or required by law, say in either France or the United States; then business would be compelled to start treating their #ewaste with this form of processing through extraction. However, here in the States it is a well known fact that publicly-owned corporations use well-paid lobbyists to heavily resist laws such as what I described. And the Supreme Court has more or less forced federal agencies' interpretations of sensitive government matters that could best be handled by cabinet-level decision-making up to the lower, federal courts to interpret instead. The current Supreme Court with its four or five Federalist Society judicial hacks is certainly more pro-corporate than any previous high court in history(?) They did this to skirt the rule of law. The black-robed ideologues figured out how to "have it both ways." They let us get by on less regulations and at the same time they screw us over the degraded environment.
Look who is the boss and founder of the biggest electric car company in the world. The richest, smarmiest and shittiest-looking and also most poorly dressed person alive -- who has had thirteen relationships with women and fathered children with every one of them: Elon Musk. That guy does not give a shit about anything even closely resembling progressivism or moderation! He is a cancer on the whole economic system.
This is where everyone in the Western hemisphere is getting discouraged. We are the business innovators and inventors, more so in certain ways than the Eastern hemisphere. And yet, aren't Asians or easterners the ones who came up with this battery breakthrough? Does anybody know or can anybody even fathom or try to plan what's going to happen next, after this? If the Chinese government and their military buy the rights to this technology, we're done for. This project won't go anywhere if that happens.
Are you telling me that that billionaire "Buddy Boy" to Donald Trump, libertarian, and all-around bigot is going to champion something such as this?
No way! Sorry to rain on your parade. America has a lot of problems right now.
And I don't think any research group in China is going to help the Earth at all. They are communists. Their culture is, pardon me, just BACKWARDS. They tried independence a long time ago in 1989 and several thousand students at Chinese universities were murdered, or kidnapped and disappeared by the authorities.
Best people can get are #NewOldStock #GTX1030 or worse like #GT710 or got forbid #GT210|s which noone should buy unless they are stuck in some hellhole like #Brazil where #customs make thibgs so expensive that people are glad if they can buy their used work computers (minus HDD/SDD) from their employers for an absurdly high price cuz #refurbishers and #UserMarket either din't exist or just full of shit re: prices!
"#Repair vouchers, which give people 50% off the cost of repairing broken electrical items, will be available from next month in a trial across #NorthLondon. If it is successful, advocates hope it will be rolled out nationwide...A similar scheme in Austria, initiated by the climate ministry, has had a huge impact, with 1.5m repair vouchers used at 3,000 #RepairShops since ... 2022. Experts estimate it has saved about 4,000 tonnes of #EWaste."
https://londonrepairvouchers.co.uk/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/06/repair-shops-broken-devices-new-lease-of-life
My dad has unloaded a curious number of #smarthome CCTV cameras on me the past year or so. The latest batch was 4x Neos SmartCams, aka Wyze c2, which were deliberately bricked by the vendor a few months ago. Took minutes to set up #thingino and save them all from #ewaste. Now just to bring them into #homeassistant 
Now that's clever and super cheap to make! It's unclear if it's going to become an available product, however, though it does appear to be listed on one shop. #retrocomputing #technology #tech #opensource #ewaste #3dprinting https://liliputing.com/this-handheld-linux-pc-is-made-from-an-old-android-phone-a-thumb-keyboard-and-a-3d-printed-case/
"Currys and Deloitte partner to ease tech recycling"
#Currys #Technology #EWaste #Recycling
https://www.edie.net/currys-and-deloitte-partner-to-ease-tech-recycling/
"Humans generate 62 million tons of e-waste each year. Here's what happens when it's recycled"
#Technology #EWaste #Recycling
https://techxplore.com/news/2025-02-humans-generate-million-tons-year.html
"There is very little to say about the Humane AI pin right now other than they are very lucky that the vast majority of tech journalists in the United States are too busy writing about the Elon Musk-led ransacking of the federal government to dunk on this company in the way it truly deserves (we are also doing this but need a break for five minutes).
The company and the tech was wildly hyped, wasted gazillions of dollars (it raised $240 million in funding), made something terrible, existed for less than a year, and are now hazardous e-waste that is a huge pain in the ass to safely dispose of. The saving grace of all of this is that Humane sold so few devices (roughly 10,000) that the number of consumers who are affected is relatively low as these things go and therefore, there are fewer of them that need to be recycled."
https://www.404media.co/the-humane-ai-pin-a-700-brick-of-e-waste/
Mijn Miele wasmachine gaat dit jaar de 25 jaar aantikken. 
Natuurlijk niet geheel zonder af en toe een reparatie, maar dankzij bedrijfjes als https://www.euromaxx.nu/product-categorie/storing/ heb ik e-waste weten te voorkomen.
Mocht je witgoed een storing hebben, kijk dan zeker even bij dit soort bedrijfjes of een makkelijke reparatie je weer verder kan helpen. Je kunt ze ook bellen of langsgaan als je in de buurt woont.
The #endof10 website is now even more updated.
Starting to look like a very nice website.
Good enough to start spreading awareness about it.
Kindle owners: #Amazon is discontinuing the ability to download books to transfer via USB on Feb 26th. Many people own older Kindles with the only connectivity being via now deprecated 2G/3G.
Avoid making #ewaste and download your libraries now for local transfer. Make certain you set your old Kindle as the default so the serial number matches.
Thanks to @melis for finding this online solution to my legacy device problem!
Tech-Takeback is running a tech donation bank in Canary Wharf 18-20 Feb.
The tech donation pop up can be found in Jubilee Place mall from Tuesday 18th to Thursday 20th February. Donate unwanted laptops, mobile phones and tablets which will be data-erased and given to local community partners to help reduce digital exclusion.
https://group.canarywharf.com/press-release/give-new-life-to-old-devices-at-canary-wharf-and-support-the-local-community-06-02-25/
#SolarPunk #ReCycling #Degrowth #eWaste #BuildingCommunity #SolarPunkSunday #Community #CommunityBuilding #London
