Matt Brewer Tech Repair

03/02/2026

This story checks out.
Other countries are using this as the backbone for their own similar laws. I agree whole hearted with this. Repair should be the way but companies, primarily Apple and Samsung are making it harder to repair but easier for something to break. Rather than build them more robust and durable, they make things like flaky Power Management circuits so that you have no choice but to upgrade your 3 year old paperweight.

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Apple was fined $27 million in France for slowing older iPhones. In any other country, they would have gotten away with it.

France became the first country to make planned obsolescence a criminal offense. Any manufacturer that deliberately shortens a product's lifespan faces up to two years in prison, a €300,000 fine, or up to 5% of annual revenue. The nonprofit HOP, founded by activist Laetitia Vasseur, pushed for years to make it happen.

In 2020, Apple was fined $27 million for intentionally slowing older iPhones and forced to post a public admission on its website for a month. France also introduced a mandatory Repairability Index: every smartphone, laptop, and appliance now carries a score from 1 to 10 showing how easy it is to fix. A national Repair Fund subsidizes repairs to make fixing cheaper than replacing.

No other country has gone this far, and the EU is now working on similar legislation.

11/05/2025

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07/25/2025

I am in agreement with the majority of the points presented in this article, which aligns with my experience of dealing with both options over the past decade.

Do you fall into the category of reckless individuals described below?

Lower rates for creating unique passwords, buying items from known websites, and using protection software leave iPhone users at risk to online scams.

06/30/2025

A reminder that unless you 100% know who your are dealing with, never give out your account information but also remember that once you give it to someone, their security standards might not be the same as your and make you vulnerable through them.
Never share you information is always the best approach to any and all of you personal information. PERIOD.

Russian hackers convinced targets to share their app passwords in very sophisticated and targeted social engineering attacks

03/13/2025

03/06/2025

Just a friendly reminder that I am appointment based only. I have not been able to handle same day walk-ins for some time now.

01/08/2025

https://www.tmj4.com/science-and-tech/social-media/meta-to-eliminate-third-party-fact-checking-after-dana-white-added-to-its-board?fbclid=IwY2xjawHqxmJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHVUgUixjblE4N2td1kO5tJk8zOpMBigcDgdoFMnEzk-rLVk-AKCg8gI3ng_aem_3F4geDqazZKd1bEEILCwcg

Meta said it is eliminating its third-party fact-checkers as it said "too much harmless content" is censored and wrongly places users in "Facebook jail."

01/06/2025

Good evening, everyone. I regret having to post this, but I have to make everyone aware of this. I have this profile for business. You are welcome to message me here, but the autoresponder will direct you to contact me during business hours at my phone number. I do not handle, and haven't handled, business via Facebook in many years. If you see that message, and then think you will just message my personal account, please don't. I'm deleting those messages as soon as I see them, and I never read them. Your request will not be opened, read, acknowledged, or responded to from my personal FB Messenger. Every weekend, I get at least one such message, and today alone there have been a few. I delete them without reading them. My personal page is for my personal use and not for business. I have a life and a family that I adore spending time with. I have my personal Facebook for me, my family, friends, and groups that I like to follow. This is my time off for my mental health, to rest, relax, spend time with my family, and do things other than work. While I do appreciate anyone that recommends me, please recommend the business page using the business name "@ matt Brewer Tech Repair" removing the space after the @ symbol. Thank you all, Good day. Happy 2025.

12/22/2024

I hope all of you have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!!

If I have helped you in 2024 it was my pleasure to have assisted you!

If you have not, Please leave me a Google Review at this link here and Thank You!!

Post a review to our profile on Google

11/22/2024

SO Facebook is updating their Terms of Service. Going into effect 1-1-2025.
You can find them on Facebook, you should read them there and not a Google Search to get the best information.

If you do not agree with what Facebook is changing in their Terms of Service there is no disclaimer that you can post to "get out of them using your data". The only way to circumvent their new terms is included in the screenshot below.

Have a great day.

10/24/2024

After several years of helping people get back into their Facebook account after being hacked and evicted, this unfortunately is no longer a service I will be providing.

I will be glad to sit down with you, help you;
1. Secure your Facebook account.

2. Teach you how to post and share while preventing your account from being cloned.

3. Help you set up your account recovery information so that you can get back into your account after you forget your login information.

Facebook's security has been elevated to the point that if a hacker obtains access to a less than secure account and evicts you from the account, I can no longer assist you in getting back in.

Please take the steps to secure your account.

“An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”