Lucy Lloyd

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"