8 Pages Tagged “Repair”

Reviews

Two Months With the Fairphone 4 ★★★⯪☆ Clunkier than most phones, but you can buy spare parts and repair it yourself. Decent hardware, if a tad slow by today’s standards (it shipped in 2021). Runs Android, LineageOS or /e/OS.
Wireless Planet ★★★★★ Great local electronics repair shop with friendly service. I’ve taken two devices in for repair recently and they’re still working great.

/dev/null: Permission denied on Alpine Linux One of my Alpine Linux VMs broke during an upgrade and started throwing errors about the permissions on /dev/null. Just fixing the permissions didn’t persist across reboots, but resetting the device manager did.
Overheating CPU Check the fans. Check the airflow inside and out. And check the inside of the heat sink. If air can’t get through the plates, heat can’t dissipate.
Repair missing UEFI entry for Fedora Linux Boot to a live image and either manually edit the menu with efibootmgr or use a specialized tool like boot-repair.
Replacing a Nosepad on Glasses Without Screws Most of the instructions I found were for nosepads attached with screws. These clips just locked the pads in place.

Almost Got It
The kid has been watching teardown/repair videos on YouTube. I took the old phones that I’d set aside for e-waste, and the tools I used to do battery replacements, and let him at them. He disassembled and reassembled the dead Nexus 5x…and it powered on! Once.
(May 2020)
Duct Tape, Foil and Cardboard
Last night I had to do some late-night laundry, and when I went in to move clothes from the washer to the dryer, I noticed water on the floor. My first thought: Great, the washing machine’s busted. On opening it, though, it looked like it had at least drained fine. So I checked the closet […]
(Nov 2013)