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Spring, Solder, and Side Quests

Sandra Hiller — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:27:11 +0000

What sticks with me from the past few months of events isn’t the number of calendar days or the names of the people I’ve met (I’m terrible with names, by the way), and it’s certainly not the details of all the talks I sat in on. It’s the stories of the people I met. Their weird questions. The things they carry in their backpacks “just in case.” At Easterhegg, someone came up to me with their…

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What Every Renter Should Know About Plumbing Repairs

Charlie Sorrel — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 13:07:00 +0000

This is the second post in a “What Every Renter Should Know” series. Also check out What Every Renter Should Know About Electrical Repairs. At home, plumbing is where the biggest repair emergencies will happen. Sinks block, pipes burst, dishwasher hoses leak. Mostly you won’t be installing plumbing like you might install electrical systems, other than hooking up washing machines and…

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Small Appliances Are Flunking Right to Repair, PIRG Report Finds

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 23:48:15 +0000

Your coffee maker may be less repairable than your phone, which is really saying something. In a new report, U.S. PIRG Education Fund looked at 58 blenders, coffeemakers, and vacuums, and nearly two-thirds earned an F for repair material availability. Only three products in the whole group offered a repair or service manual, and most didn’t offer meaningful spare parts or any first-party repair…

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What Every Renter Should Know About Electrical Repairs

Charlie Sorrel — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 21:51:00 +0000

This is part of a “What Every Renter Should Know” series. Also check out our recommendations for electrical repairs. You’ve just moved into your new rental apartment/house/bungalow. Everything is in perfect working order, and the entire place has been beautifully refurbished by the landlord. I’m kidding. Probably the landlord has done little more than force the previous tenant to slather a…

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AirPods Max 2 Teardown: Same Design, No Fixes

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:20:08 +0000

Your Dishwasher Filter Is Disgusting: Here’s How to Clean It

Charlie Sorrel — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:16:14 +0000

There are two kinds of basic dishwasher design, the filter and the macerator. If you don’t know which one you have, and you’ve never opened it up to clean it/check it out, then you may be in for a very nasty surprise. Filter-based models need to have their filters cleaned regularly. If you’ve never cleaned yours, then you have years worth of food slurry built up in there.

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A New Colorado Bill Could Blow a Hole in the Nation’s Strongest Right to Repair Law

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:00:00 +0000

You can kill a Right to Repair law without ever voting against Right to Repair. You just carve out a category so broad, so fuzzy, and so lawyer-friendly that the companies you meant to regulate can simply point to it and walk away. That’s what Colorado Senate Bill 26-090 threatens to do. On paper, it looks technical. In practice, it could hollow out the strongest electronics Right to…

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Galaxy S26 Ultra Teardown: Amazing… Until It Breaks

Manuel Haeussermann — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:59:39 +0000

Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra Has a Brilliant Display with a Brutal Repair

Elizabeth Chamberlain — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 13:01:32 +0000

Note: Samsung updated the information for the parts we linked to after we published the teardown. There are two kinds of phone privacy: One keeps hackers from reading your messages. The other keeps out the nosy neighbor on the plane. Samsung’s Galaxy S26 Ultra actually tackles the second one, with a built-in privacy display that is weird, clever, and far more interesting than the usual…

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Raspberry Pi Projects That Anyone Can Do

Charlie Sorrel — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:46:00 +0000

This week was Pi Day, so what better time to celebrate the beloved tinkerer tool, the Raspberry Pi? You might know the Raspberry Pi as a tiny, low-powered computer which can be programmed to do just about anything. It’s also used in commercial products as a convenient off-the-shelf processor for hardware devices. A lot of Raspberry Pi projects require typing commands into a text-based…

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