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High-Performance Custom Laptops – Upgradeable & Powerful
Fully configurable desktop replacement laptops and mobile workstations. Upgradeable, powerful, portable.
‘The Internet Sucks.’ Cory Doctorow Tells How to Fix It | The Tyee
The digital savant on ‘enshittification,’ how ‘twiddlers’ secretly rip us off, powering down Big Tech and more. A Tyee interview.

Refurbished tech that's better for the planet | Back Market
Find the best deals on refurbished phones, laptops, and tech at Back Market. Up to 70% off when compared to new products. Free delivery, 1-year warranty, 30-day money back guarantee.

Rating all the things | Tynan Is Typing | Tynan is afk til 10/19 ⁂ | Offprint
All existing proposals are wrong because they are all right

The rise of ‘Frankenstein’ laptops in New Delhi’s repair markets
Technicians in India’s refurbished laptop shops give discarded electronics a new life.

Big Trek from Big Tech
I spend a great deal of time evaluating tools that can replace the Big Tech variants that mistreat us. This includes services that just make my online life easier, with bonus points for small, friendly and sustainable.

Apple’s $599 MacBook Neo boosts laptop repairability
Multiple teardowns and Apple’s own repair documentation suggest the new $599 MacBook Neo is unusually easy to service for a modern Apple laptop. Inside, the layout is simplified and comes apart quickly with standard Torx screws. Reviewers point to modular, swappable parts—USB‑C ports, speakers, and the headphone jack—plus a battery secured with screws instead of the strong adhesives and tapes that have complicated many prior Mac repairs. One standout change: the keyboard is replaceable as its own part, rather than forcing a swap of the entire “top case” assembly. That shift could cut both downtime and parts costs for common failures. Several outlets frame the Neo as Apple leaning further into Self Service Repair—and responding to broader right‑to‑repair pressure—which could be welcome for schools, businesses, and anyone trying to keep a budget laptop running longer instead of replacing it.
Laptops – 3mdeb Sp. z o.o.
Repair Café - Fixing Together, Worldwide
Repair Café is a global initiative that promotes the culture of repair. Join us in fixing things together and contribute to a more sustainable future.
Repair Culture: Learning to Fix Instead of Replace – Wayfinders Now – Living small to gain abundance.
Repair culture is the growing mindset of choosing to fix what’s broken instead of immediately replacing it. It challenges a habit that has become almost automatic in modern life: when something stops working, we discard it. A new phone, a new appliance, a new chair, a new everything. Repair culture asks a quieter question: What […]

You Love Your Ultrawide Gaming Monitor. What About an Ultrawide Gaming Laptop?
Lenovo brought a Legion gaming laptop to CES this year with a rollable OLED display that expands horizontally by six inches.

Louis Rossmann
DHH on Twitter / X
Going to double down on the MacBook mission with Omarchy. We almost have perfect coverage for the vintage Intel era going from 2009-2020. There's a straight shot to get the M1 and M2 machines going too, even if it's a lot more work. But we'll do the work. We'll fix everything.— DHH (@dhh) August 22, 2026
You have to beat the models at something
In 2025, I wrote that software engineers ought to be assessed by “value over replacement”: not how much money they made for their company, but how much they…
Prime Intellect on Twitter / X
Announcing our $130M Series A to build the Open Superintelligence StackLed by Radical Ventures, with NVIDIA, Intel Capital, Dell Capital, and existing investorsTrain, deploy, and continuously improve your own models using our stack.Own your intelligence. pic.twitter.com/BM31LfVUNQ— Prime Intellect (@PrimeIntellect) July 8, 2026
Great post -- Sophie makes an important point: the results OpenAI announced with great fanfare are "normal for the current state of technology". The credit goes above all to the data -- the communal knowledge of mathematicians they relied to train their LLM
Sophie Huiberts
Guest blog by me