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I actually didn't need to apply any heat to remove the glue holding the screen on! The bulging battery had separated almost three quarters of it by the time my replacement parts arrived. 😅
The pull tabs to unglue the battery from the chassis absolutely did not work as designed. I'm lucky #iFixIt has both a parts kit and repair instructions, otherwise I'd have been out of luck. 🗑️
#SmartPhone #RightToRepair #BadDesign #DIY #eWaste

A disassembled smartphone lying on a gray cutting mat graduated in inches. Tiny screws and small parts are in a steel dish next to the removed screen and a card that reads BATTERY CALIBRATION. Tweezers, a spudger, a mini bit driver, disassembly picks, an alcohol wipe, and a pipette are lying on the mat. A red Swiss army knife with the scissors extended is next to the mat and a small piece of antistatic material. Next to the body of the phone is a metal frame, the removed battery, and a pile of black glue. The iFixit logo is visble on one of the pairs of tweezers and the disassembly picks.
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Pete Alex Harris🦡🕸️🌲/∞🪐∫

When you are typing text on a computer, after every character entered there should be small period of time, say 0.5 seconds, in which it is not possible for another application to pop up a dialog that steals input focus.

Make everything else fucking wait until I have finished typing. I promise you there is nothing so urgent that I will be glad my focus was yanked away in the middle of a word.

#UI#BadDesign#UX
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Richard Jones

Is it just me who finds the #OrdnanceSurvey #map #symbols for #SolarFarms dissatisfactory? Not only are they too literal and insufficiently simplified (note #church symbols)—I’d suggest a stylised #sun alone would suffice—but what really gets my goat is the symbols’ orientation, which implies that the sun shines from the north-west quarter of the #sky (which in the #Northern #Hemisphere it NEVER DOES!). #Saturday #morning #rant over! #BadDesign #Cartography #Maps #Symbology

Extract of 1:50,000 Ordnance Survey map showing location of three solar farms near Bilsthorpe, Nottinghamshire. The symbol comprises a black right-angle triangle bottom right, and half sun top left.
Solar farm symbol on 1:25,000 Ordnance Survey map. Black square, bottom right white panels, top left half stylised sun.
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