Some devices aren’t hard to repair by accident—they’re built that way.
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Some devices aren’t hard to repair by accident—they’re built that way. These design choices block access, add risk, and push you toward replacement instead of repair. That’s not innovation. That's planned obsolescence.
Which one annoys you the most?
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorldGlued/welded cases. Dammit, at least let me open the thing up without destroying it!
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Some devices aren’t hard to repair by accident—they’re built that way. These design choices block access, add risk, and push you toward replacement instead of repair. That’s not innovation. That's planned obsolescence.
Which one annoys you the most?
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld@iFixit soldered RAM ―as in the Dell Inspirons sold to millions of USA K-to-PhD students― are, hands down the worst. we can add external storage drives. there is no such thing for RAM.
honestly, it should be a crime punishable by a 10% of the total gross worth of a company.
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Some devices aren’t hard to repair by accident—they’re built that way. These design choices block access, add risk, and push you toward replacement instead of repair. That’s not innovation. That's planned obsolescence.
Which one annoys you the most?
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld@iFixit
All Nespresso or Dyson devices... -
Some devices aren’t hard to repair by accident—they’re built that way. These design choices block access, add risk, and push you toward replacement instead of repair. That’s not innovation. That's planned obsolescence.
Which one annoys you the most?
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld@iFixit HIDDEN SCREWS
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Some devices aren’t hard to repair by accident—they’re built that way. These design choices block access, add risk, and push you toward replacement instead of repair. That’s not innovation. That's planned obsolescence.
Which one annoys you the most?
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld@iFixit i had to repair my friend's motorola edge 50 fusion and had to replace a broken screen.
Those shenanigans glued the battery and put the display flex cable underneath it, and it's so frustrating.My relative's redmi note 12s gonna need a battery replacement, and it's already complicated to replace it since the back cover needs to be unglued from the frame, but well atleast Xiaomi has a strip to remove the battery gracefully. Disgusting!
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Some devices aren’t hard to repair by accident—they’re built that way. These design choices block access, add risk, and push you toward replacement instead of repair. That’s not innovation. That's planned obsolescence.
Which one annoys you the most?
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Some devices aren’t hard to repair by accident—they’re built that way. These design choices block access, add risk, and push you toward replacement instead of repair. That’s not innovation. That's planned obsolescence.
Which one annoys you the most?
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld@iFixit "Security" screws. They could have been slot-head, cross-head, or hexagon-head, but manufacturer decided to be cute and make something proprietary that is probably just "use a precision flathead very carefully" to remove.
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@iFixit soldered RAM ―as in the Dell Inspirons sold to millions of USA K-to-PhD students― are, hands down the worst. we can add external storage drives. there is no such thing for RAM.
honestly, it should be a crime punishable by a 10% of the total gross worth of a company.
@blogdiva @iFixit I wonder if we will ever get CXL pice-attached memory support in any kind of commodity device ... it would be lower performance than main memory but a lot better than even flash storage. Just thinking of all the weird PCIe hacks people have done to attach GPUs to stuff, this would be in the same category.
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@iFixit soldered RAM ―as in the Dell Inspirons sold to millions of USA K-to-PhD students― are, hands down the worst. we can add external storage drives. there is no such thing for RAM.
honestly, it should be a crime punishable by a 10% of the total gross worth of a company.
@blogdiva @iFixit This is caused by people in suits who will tell you that the cost of a single socket, multiplied by a million orders, will somehow end all sales and destroy the company. I have had such discussions with people who will not listen to reason, and think a penny, times a million, is a billion dollars, so we shipped crap instead of quality.
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Some devices aren’t hard to repair by accident—they’re built that way. These design choices block access, add risk, and push you toward replacement instead of repair. That’s not innovation. That's planned obsolescence.
Which one annoys you the most?
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#iFixit #RightoRepair #FixTheWorld@iFixit Hidden screws are annoying, but if there are guides, that's something you can deal with. Glue can be dissolved with some alcohol, and you can get it at most pharmacies. Soldered chips requires specialized equipment and training to repair, which means you can't expect the average person to just follow a guide. I'd say soldered down components is the biggest obstacle for home repairs.
I have the equipment and skill to repair these, but even I get annoyed when I have to spend quite a bit of time to upgrade the SSD when M.2 can be upgraded in seconds and doesn't take much space anyway (Apple is especially bad with this, and use it to overcharge their customers), soldered RAM is more common for laptops, but with LPCAMM2, there's no excuse to solder RAM on the board when you're trying to hit the highest performance.
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