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By Kirk Miller In a move akin to spitefully paying your parking ticket with bags of pennies, Apple recently shipped a 79-pound iPhone Repair Kit to a customer who wanted to DIY fix their iPhone. The customer was Sean Hollister, a writer for The Verge. As he wrote: “I expected Apple would send me a small box of screwdrivers, spudgers, and pliers; I own a mini iPhone, after all. Instead, I found two giant Pelican cases — 79 pounds of tools — on my front porch.” When Apple announced Self Service Repair last November, there was skepticism. We’ve mentioned before that Apple hasn’t really embraced (…