When Kyle Wiens was in college, he dropped his laptop causing damage that he was pretty sure he could fix, but when he went online to look for a manual–it didn’t exists. Turns out that company that manufactured his computer intentionally made it hard to fix it on his own. This sent Kyle on a journey to create iFixit.

iFixit is a source for more than 90,000 free repair guides for a wide-range of items–from tablets to coats, laptops to cars, oxygen machines to microwaves.

CEO Kyle Wiens joins guest host Patty Peltekos on A Public Affair to talk about the problem of planned obsolesces and the Right to Repair Movement.

Image by Jan Kuss from Pixabay

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