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Recycle Man

@amber - Please review this: Replacement battery not accepted

Apple Adding Last MacBook Pro With CD Drive to Vintage Products List

Lithium batteries' big unanswered question

Shareholders have pressured Microsoft to ramp up its repairability efforts!! Microsoft posts its own teardown and repair...

Here’s Why You Should Always Avoid Amazon

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Apple’s New Fix-It Policy Is Not The End For ‘Right To Repair’

@amber - Please reach out to this poor guy as somehow he got a bad battery Why isn’t my replacement battery charging?

Apple Giving Customers a Second Chance to Buy AppleCare+ After Their iPhone or Mac is Repaired

One more to start the new year! 4059596

@oldturkey03 - Our beds are also running out with fewer staff as many either had gotten sick or burnt out. Our governor is looking at reopening some of our western state sites for the needed beds and we have already got the guard out stepping in for school bus drivers. While we have a good inoculation with 75% (5.18M) with two doses and about 10% with the booster. We are still struggling! And we still have many people in denial either as a Trumpian or just not believing the science! In Texas I know it’s a lot worse! Update (01/09/2022): For some good news! Boston appears to be over the Omicron hump! Experts are seeing hopeful signs in the Boston area’s COVID-19 wastewater data

Every Year my family watches Frank Capra’s It’s a Wonderful Life even if we are not together. It offers a good reflection of the past year as well as the battles we have faced. I always tear up at the end! Today our collective battle for life is larger than just ones family as our whole planet faces a new scourge of a virus which just won’t give up. Now on its third mutation, and soon just in the states alone we will have lost 1 million people to it, let alone the rest of the worlds battle with 4.4 Million alone so far. We still have a long way to got to contain this menace but as we move to the new year I think we are on the top of the bell curve! As Omicron is not as deadly, more so if you’ve been inoculated, but the earlier COVID variations are still very deadly and many still haven’t gotten any shots as much as they want them! Please! Do your part not only getting you shots, wear face covering (the M95 masks being ideal) when gathering. And work on convincing others the need to do their part. Be safe...

This is a good read on how our government fumbled so badly at the beginning of the epidemic! Select Subcommittee’s Year-End Staff Report Highlights Oversight Work, Releases New Findings From Ongoing Investigations The biggest failure is not listening to science and getting in the way! And the second, is failing to react on getting the PPE needed for the hospitals lined up quickly. If this was country going to war with us we all would put our collective shoulder to the task to defend our country! The enemy is clear and visible! The lack of seeing the enemy and its physical damage makes it hard for many to see the harm of denial we are now facing with the Omicron mutation that is taking hold.

@amber - Can we also work on cleaning up the Pro’s business accounts! ID’ing them so they can be found. Country, Region, City/Township We need to aim people to independent repair shops. If you really want to complete the circle post an email to them to update their info so people can find them and what they repair.

@amber - This issue is the validity of the answer and its age - If the question older and is clean, and the answer is supported with hard facts then I don’t see any issue in accepting it. I don’t do it very often I think I’ve done it maybe twice this year, and its only after someone had posted something new to the question or answer so it came across my list. For the moderators the important issue is not the points it’s making sure the correct answer is the top most. There was a point when I arrived on the scene there was a bit of racing the clock for points which I thought was odd as there really nothing gained once you hit a certain level. The achievement is the quality of the answer what is offered for that persons benefit. Not sending them down a rabbit hole of misinformation. Chastising and/or embarrassing someone within the main site when you have a different option is not the way to deal with the matter. More so when other answers in the question or other questions for what ever reasons are biased...

Time to clear these guys out! (1) 4006258 (2) 3616546

So far it’s not a law yet at the US federal level, many states have pressed forward on getting in on the local books which would likely cause a cascade once one state gets it done. Which I suspect is now a neck and neck race between the states and the fed who will get it done first. Here’s a good reference: Electronics right to repair The Rise of the Right to Repair: Preparing for New Laws and More Enforcement Here’s the bill H.R.4006 - Fair Repair Act Note the tracker only shows Introduced, when it get to the end Became Law we will have a federal law! The Philippines is an independent country as of 1946. Even still many laws of the US are often mimicked by the Philippine government (and others). Here’s the current Philippine consumer protections Consumer Rights

Here’s an odd one! 'alert('XSS')// This appears to be user account which is also present in Meta! And is a spammer!

Can someone pull this guide https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/intro/14390...