Fixing your own gadgets, from HomePods to Harmony remotes

The Vergecast

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🗓️ 15 February 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Today on the flagship podcast of home theater remotes: repairing broken gadgets and why you should do it. 01:55 - David Pierce talks with Nic of Nic’s Fix, a repair service specializing in Apple’s original HomePod. Nicsfix.com New Apple HomePod 2023 Comparison and Teardown; Is it better? Is it fixed?? 28:15 - Alex Cranz talks with Quin at Harmony Remote Repair, who offers fixes for the discontinued universal remote from Logitech. harmonyremoterepair.com Logitech officially discontinues its Harmony remote 47:07 - iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens joins the show to talk about the state of fixing your own stuff and what’s next in the fight for the right to repair. Rebble with a Cause: How Pebble Watches Were Granted an Amazing Afterlife | iFixit News New York breaks the right to repair bill as it’s signed into law Email us at vergecast@theverge.com or call the Vergecast hotline at 866-VERGE11, we'd love to hear from you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, and you are listening to The Verge cast, the flagship podcast of Home Theater
0:12.2	Remotes, and I'm your friend, Alex Kranz, and I am currently Sandin Mapplupi.
0:18.2	My plupi is a 3D printed track ball.
0:21.2	I've talked about it on the show more than once.
0:23.3	I love the thing, but sometimes the plastic gets a little rough and I gotta sand it, make
0:27.2	it smooth.
0:28.2	And that is what I'm doing right now.
0:30.0	But one of the reasons I really like the plupi isn't because I have to sand it sometimes.
0:34.1	It's because it's open source.
0:36.3	Any part of it I want to repair or modify, I can, I don't have to ask permission, I can
0:40.6	just go do it.
0:41.6	And there's a ton of documentation online that lets me do it.
0:45.3	But a lot of gadgets aren't built like that, right?
0:48.6	Most companies don't want you to repair their gadgets.
0:51.2	They want you to go and buy new gadgets, hopefully from them when your current gadget
0:56.0	breaks.
0:57.0	And then I'm going to say on the show, we're going to be talking to some of the people who
0:58.9	are out there repairing those gadgets, repairing things like the HomePod and the Logitech
1:03.4	Harmony Remote.
1:04.4	And we're also going to be talking to the guys that I fix it because like us, they care
1:08.5	a lot about the right to repair.
1:10.9	It's a very exciting episode.
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