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"