a few weeks ago, the charging port on my phone stopped working. luckily, i have a phone from a company that has put repairability as a high priority, so i was able to order a new usb board for 10 bucks and install it myself using their tutorial. i feel very accomplished, i have never repaired an electronic like that before. :)
devices held together by adhesives was an innovate approach
but also a degenerate one… which has led phones to degenerate into their current state of tricky repairability.
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