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The Galaxy Z Fold8 is the nicest foldable Samsung has made. It’s thinner, lighter, and, crucially, shaped less like a weird folding tech demo and more like a normal expensive thing people might actually buy. Five million preorders suggest Samsung isn’t alone in thinking the category has finally grown up (or maybe just that the preorder deals were too good to pass up). Samsung has also gone directly after foldables’ most visible scar: the crease down the middle of the inner display.

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Along with the hammer, the screwdriver might be the most abused tool in your toolbox. Heck, a big one can even be used as a hammer in a push. Instead of tut-tutting and telling you to look after your tools (which you totally should btw), today we’re going to look at all the non-screwing things that you can do with a a screwdriver. We’re going to get pretty creative here, but—content warning—things are also going to get pretty nasty.

This will sound familiar: You have a beloved tool/pair of walking boots/kitchen appliance/etc .that you’ve owned since forever. It’s well-made, built to last, but then it breaks or eventually wears out. You replace it with the same model from the same brand, but something’s off. It looks the same, but this time it breaks down after only a year. No, it’s not you. These products have all been designed to be worse. Silver lining: somebody is keeping an eye on them.

This fall, Apple will cut off millions of iPads from further OS updates. This will leave owners of perfectly-good hardware with no choice but to watch it slowly wither its way to the recycling center. Ideally Apple would support its computers with service updates for much longer, but there’s another way. Apple could fix this without much ongoing effort on its part, and give this still-great hardware years and years of extra life: let users install a different operating system (OS).

A year ago, we wrote that repairability is just the beginning. This year, our work with Logitech put some numbers behind that idea. Logitech repair content on iFixit was viewed more than 5 million times. Spare-parts sales grew ninefold year over year. The three most popular guides now draw around 3,000 views apiece every month. People are looking for ways to keep their gear working. Our job is to make sure they find something useful when they arrive.

The annual smartphone release cycle has become predictably iterative while true hardware innovation has been overshadowed by marketing hype. Apple’s 2025 lineup gave us an uninspired colorway and a regressive redesign that actually hinders battery repairs—a disappointing shift from the repair friendly dual-entry design of the iPhone 14 and the electrically releasing adhesive of the iPhone 16.

Spend this holiday season celebrating the world of repair. 2022 has been a banner year for fixers. Repair is more mainstream than ever. Organizations like Repair Café are boosting local communities and sharing knowledge around the globe. And thanks to industry giants like Apple, Samsung, and Valve providing repair guides and parts, fixing has never been more accessible. What better year to give the gift of repair?

Finally some good news from the endless bleakness of RAMageddon: Microsoft has extended Windows 10 support for another year, to October 12th 2027, probably because it’s hard to force people to buy a new RAM-hungry Windows 11 computer when prices are rocketing. If you’re already signed up for Windows 10 Extended Security Updates, you should’ve gotten an email announcing the extension; if not, you’ll want to get on that.

Nintendo and Amazon are putting user-replaceable batteries in the Switch 2 and (possibly) the Kindle. This will not be down to altruism or respect for the buyer, but instead, thanks to EU legislation. And while we don’t yet know Amazon’s intentions, Nintendo’s replaceable-battery versions will only be available in the EU. Bit by bit, Europe’s Right to Repair laws are having their intended effect: to make things better for users.