President Joe Biden issued a sweeping executive order on Friday that encourages government agencies to begin enacting reforms across the tech spectrum, including re-enacting net neutrality, enforcing broadband competition, enacting “right-to-repair” laws, […]
The Right to Repair movement has been advocating for consumers’ opportunity to repair their own hardware and electronics without involving manufacturers for more than two decades. Important milestones in the United States […]
Portable devices tend to break a lot, if only because people are lugging them around whenever they go. Valve, now both a PC manufacturer and portable game console maker, is taking the […]
Last year Dell showed off Concept Luna, a laptop that could be completely disassembled with just a screwdriver. It was an impressive demonstration of the principles of the right-to-repair movement: modularity, sustainability, […]
iFixit’s specialized toolkits for repairing gadgets are some of the best on the market — they’re one of our go-to gift recommendations for any nerd, and they’re great around the house, too. […]
Today, Logitech announced a new partnership with iFixit, a company that helps folks fix their broken devices. This partnership means that you can now extend the life of certain Logitech mice models […]
Microsoft’s Surface line has had its ups and downs — remember the Surface RT? Me neither — but it’s generally well-regarded as solid hardware with some great aesthetics. One thing it hasn’t […]
Modern game controllers are pretty robust, at least as long as you go with a first-party option. But they’re also expensive, so when one breaks, it’s a deep reach for seventy bucks […]
Enshrining the rights of consumers and third-party technicians to repair their own devices is a long slog of a legal process, but Oregon just took a big step forward. The state just […]
Microsoft’s PC Manager is a cool, useful, and free tool for PC users who want to optimize Windows quickly and easily. But using PC Manager apparently can also have unwanted side effects. […]
