We talk with Lucy Lloyd,  a self-taught Apple product repair and support technician living in Sedan, Minnesota, a town with a population of less than fifty people. We talk about everything from growing up in a small town to setting up her independent repair business in the corner of her mom’s flower shop. We also talk a lot about the right to repair, a really important political issue that directly impacts repair workers like Lucy and all of us who use, consume, and depend on technologies from cars to smart phones. 

 

Additional links/info below...

• U.S. PIRG - Right to Repair 
• Repair.org 
• iFixit 
• Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, "The Fight for the 'Right to Repair'" 
• Nathan Proctor, WIRED, "Corporations are Co-Opting Right-to-Repair"
• Nathan Proctor, WIRED, "Right to Repair Is Now a National Issue" 
• Maximillian Alvarez, The Baffler, "The Death of Media" 
• Rosie Spinks, The Guardian, "We're All Losers to a Gadget Industry Built on Planned Obsolescence" 
• Jason Koebler, Motherboard, "Tractor-Hacking Farmers Are Leading a Revolt Against Big Tech's Repair Monopolies" 
• Matthew Gault, Motherboard, "The World Economic Forum Tells Davos: Electronics are 'the Fastest-Growing Waste Stream in the World'"

 

Featured Music (all songs sourced from the Free Music Archive: freemusicarchive.org)

• Lobo Loco, "Malte Junior - Hall"
• Creo, "Place on Fire"