Kyle Wiens

Fixer. Right to repair advocate. iFixit CEO. @[email protected]

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

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[Chris Arnade 🐢🐱🚌 @Chris_arnade]

I’m at the McDonald’s worldwide convention, where I found out about the only thing that matters - the new breakdown proof ice cream machine

[Bennett @b_nnett]

23.5 hours later... there's an app and it's open source.

It tracks activities & sleep. It has full sensor support: HR, SpO2, HRV, Temperature, Motion, etc.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Kotkin is a brilliant historian. Here he discusses what surprised him about Ukraine’s technological adaptation in the war and how Ukraine now ranks with Taiwan as a great U.S. asset.

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

Does anyone actually keep gloves in their glove box?

[Brian Stone @briandstone]

I can’t go out with you tonight, I have to update my toaster.

[marqix ☆ @fwmarqix]

Me at phone repair shop: My phone fell into the river.

Clerk: Okay.

Me: Then a boat hit it.

Clerk pauses typing.

Clerk: …okay.

Me: Then I tried drying it with microwave.

Clerk slowly removes glasses like he just got assigned a side quest.

Clerk: Why would you do that.

Me: Internet said heat helps.

Clerk: THE INTERNET ALSO SAYS YOU CAN MANIFEST MONEY BY YELLING AT THE MOON.

I place phone on counter, phone looks like it survived reentry from space.

Clerk picks it up with two fingers like archaeologists handling cursed relics.

Clerk: This thing smells electrical.

Me: Is that bad.

Clerk: Usually, yes.

He presses power button, nothing happens, then suddenly, phone vibrates violently, screen flashes bright green, distorted idol music starts playing at maximum volume.

entire shop freezes.

somewhere in the back a printer wakes up for no reason.

Clerk: WHY IS IT STILL ALIVE.

Me: I paid extra for durability.

Phone screen flickers, barely functional notification appears: Storage almost full.

Clerk stares at me in silence for five full seconds.

Clerk : FULL OF WHAT?? another flicker?

phone opens camera by itself, front camera reveals both of us looking terrified.

Clerk whispers: It remembers.

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

Can't stop won't stop fixing!

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

There's just so much energy in the Right to Repair movement right now. I'm in Halifax at the Canadian Repair Convention, and the university is packed with fixers using amazing creativity to keep things running.

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

Livestream for the event is up here: https://t.co/lA0aAleheE

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

@_baldtires @mattfreed The lawn chair is the true sign of genius here.

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

@AaronGogley @BradCLemley @Car6and7eighths Understood! Give it a try, it'll save you money on the first repair.

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

@BradCLemley @Car6and7eighths The averaged solution often gets key details wrong. We solved this in FixBot by grounding it in technical source material. Works really well.

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

@BradCLemley This is why we built iFixit!

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

@mcuban Makes sense. Does put a thumb on certain algorithm changes. Claude 4.7 is 30% more token intensive.

[Congressman Pat Harrigan @RepPatHarrigan]

For 20 years, a $6 knob that takes one hour to 3D print has been grounding Black Hawk helicopters four times a month, and the contractor responsible won't sell us the part or the IP rights to fix it ourselves.

So instead, American taxpayers have been paying $40,000 every single time to replace the entire system, multiplied by four times a month, for two decades.

That is NOT a procurement problem, that is a shakedown, and it is exactly why right to repair has to be in this year's NDAA.

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

@doodlestein That's sweet! Kids like it
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[𝕂𝚊𝚛𝚖𝚊 ❀ 𝔾𝚊𝚛𝚍𝚎𝚗𝚎𝚛 @karma_gardener]

@jollier_raptor growing just almonds alone, no other agriculture, uses like 90x all datacenter water

[Jeff Geerling @geerlingguy]

Bambu Lab 3D printers: never again.

They're breaking the open source social contract (for the nth time...), and I'm past hoping they'll amend their ways.

https://t.co/NXzMlKHaYu

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

@keeganmomentt @FrameworkPuter @yacineMTB That's a great place to start!

[Kyle Wiens @kwiens]

@johnkonrad I built an ai tool designed for parts research, been exclusively using it to chase down parts for my two boats and it's fantastic https://t.co/JP0ZDc5V2S

Hear all the time from people who bought the wrong part per ChatGPT advice