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50TB is not a lot, it’s actually a capacity that some homelabers and data hoarders have or surpass.

It’s my informed opinion that you are wrong on both points, but you are of course entitled to your opinion.

How are you giving google your data if it’s from a tempmail?

Also, can you please point out to me where in OPs post does it mention anything about privacy? It specifically mentions not paying, not privacy concerns.

No, I use an account, created with a tempmail address.

They are not using agents. Most people use LLMs as Google on steroids.

Not possible? That’s precisely what I do.

My car has driving assistance (my girlfriend)

Dyson is crap

A friend lent me a Dyson bladeless fan (first bullshit, it’s an enclosed ducted fan, so blades) that is so overcomplicated it’s mind boggling.

400 €

Amazing features:

color screen. On a fan. Why the fuck!!

Remote: I can get onboard with that, but this shit has 6 buttons and 2 rockers. All I need is an on/off/1/2/3 button, a swing, and a cold/hot that is: cold/low/medium/high heat. 3 buttons.

Noisy. My cheapo stand fan from Aldi moves more air and is way more silent.

“Air multiplier technology”… So a Bernoully shroud. Yeah. Revolutionary. Cutting edge.

Swings. Ohhhh, the innovation! Also tilts. Wow!!!

Air filter: O.K. makes sense in a fucking 400€ machine. The again, they go for 25€ at IKEA, and I’m making one, 3D printed, that uses an automotive HEPA cabin filter, 7€, and 4 120 ultra silent 120mm PC fans, 9€/4. And an aliexpress PS/buck converter (undecided)

Dyson replacement filter: 90€. So I can buy an IKEA purifier, and when the filter is clogged, chuck the whole thing, purifier AND filter, 4 times before I replace the Dyson filter.

Etc…

I used to own a Dyson corded vacuum cleaner. The brushes needed replacement. First gripe on a hideously expensive vacuum. Why brushes?? Why!!! I open it up to replace, and the innards were so cheap ass and flimsy it hurt seeing them. screw stubs without reinforcements, plastic clips so flimsy that they broke just by looking at them, self tapping plastic screws (brass threaded inserts cost ME cents.)…

Also, "Look! we are soo cool! Cyclonic particle separation! Like they invented the tech that has been separating sawdust in woodworking shops and sawmills for a century!

And loud. Unnecessarily loud. They make their vacuums loud on purpose, because people associate loud with power.

I now own a 20 yr. old Vorwerk Kobold, made by the same company that makes the Thermomix, an amazing kitchen appliance. Solid, no problems with spares 20 yrs later, silent, HEPA paper bags (bagless are shit, look up vacuum technician opinions on the web) and has great suction (insert sophomoric joke here). SILENT! So silent the dog doesn’t give 2 fucks about it.

That said, Commercial Dyson hand dryers are the only hand dryers I’ll use. Good.

But yeah, they are the Apple of air moving appliances; make people believe they have invented a lot of shit, while they are essentially packagers of that technology, Gouge customers, convince customers that hardware is great (It’s not, and TBH, a lot of Apple’s isn’t either.)

Dyson is glorified shit (mostly)

A friend lent me a Dyson bladeless fan (first bullshit, it’s an enclosed ducted fan, so blades) that is so overcomplicated it’s mind boggling.

400 €

Amazing features:

color screen. On a fan. Why the fuck!!

Remote: I can get onboard with that, but this shit has 6 buttons and 2 rockers. All I need is an on/off/1/2/3 button, a swing, and a cold/hot that is: cold/low/medium/high heat. 3 buttons.

Noisy. My cheapo stand fan from Aldi moves more air and is way more silent.

“Air multiplier technology”… So a Bernoully shroud. Yeah. Revolutionary. Cutting edge.

Swings. Ohhhh, the innovation! Also tilts. Wow!!!

Air filter: O.K. makes sense in a fucking 400€ machine. The again, they go for 25€ at IKEA, and I’m making one, 3D printed, that uses an automotive HEPA cabin filter, 7€, and 4 120 ultra silent 120mm PC fans, 9€/4. And an aliexpress PS/buck converter (undecided)

Dyson replacement filter: 90€. So I can buy an IKEA purifier, and when the filter is clogged, chuck the whole thing, purifier AND filter, 4 times before I replace the Dyson filter.

Etc…

I used to own a Dyson corded vacuum cleaner. The brushes needed replacement. First gripe on a hideously expensive vacuum. Why brushes?? Why!!! I open it up to replace, and the innards were so cheap ass and flimsy it hurt seeing them. screw stubs without reinforcements, plastic clips so flimsy that they broke just by looking at them, self tapping plastic screws (brass threaded inserts cost ME cents.)…

Also, "Look! we are soo cool! Cyclonic particle separation! Like they invented the tech that has been separating sawdust in woodworking shops and sawmills for a century!

And loud. Unnecessarily loud. They make their vacuums loud on purpose, because people associate loud with power.

I now own a 20 yr. old Vorwerk Kobold, made by the same company that makes the Thermomix, an amazing kitchen appliance. Solid, no problems with spares 20 yrs later, silent, HEPA paper bags (bagless are shit, look up vacuum technician opinions on the web) and has great suction (insert sophomoric joke here). SILENT! So silent the dog doesn’t give 2 fucks about it.

That said, Commercial Dyson hand dryers are the only hand dryers I’ll use. Good.

But yeah, they are the Apple of air moving appliances; make people believe they have invented a lot of shit, while they are essentially packagers of that technology, Gouge customers, convince customers that hardware is great (It’s not, and TBH, a lot of Apple’s isn’t either.)

Why do people complicate their lives so much?

Firefox+ublock origin+ privacy badger does it for me.

My sister remodeled her kitchen about 10nyrs ago. All appliances Bosch. Microwave, fridge and oven have all had problems.

Bosch is not what it used to be. If you can afford it, Miele. Bulletproof, very well engineered and repairable.

Expensive, but worth it in the long run.

I had an all Miele kitchen, except for the microwave. 0 problems in over 15 yrs.

Where lions ambush gazelles when they go to the water hole

When they start hallucinating they output Klingon to me, and to make matters worse, with grammatical errors.

That is another factor, but not always true. If you print in a heat resistant filament that is also food safe (TBH I don’t know of one, but it probably exists), and use it for solids, like fruit bowls, cookie jars, and the like, and is dishwasher safe. It should be fine. The problem is that most people will not make the entire production path food safe. Too much liability for manufacturers, even with food safe materials.

Many youtube 3D printing influencers actually recommend brain dead shit like drying filaments with undisclosed ingredients in ovens or microwaves where they will cook food, and stupid shit like that.

10T. Banger of a phone.

Actually pretty repairable despite the glued back.

I wonder if this will mean screwed split-half washing machine drums, for example.

One of the most common failure points in washing machines is the drum bearing. Nowadays almost all makes are using drums where the halves of the drum are plastic, welded together, where they used to be screwed together. The welds prevent opening the drum, and make bearing replacement basically impossible. The makes will sell you a replacement of the whole assembly, but it will often cost like 2/3 of a new machine. This means that a bearing failure often results in chucking a machine that used to be repaired for a cost under a 100 € if done professionally, or tens if DIY.

I imagine the “whole assembly” concept will be used as one of the loopholes.

Water resistance does not mean what people think. ISO 22810 says that a 3 bar (30m) water resistant is “Not suitable for showering, bathing, swimming, snorkeling, water related work, fishing, and diving.”

30m. Not. Suitable. for. showering.

Also, most really waterproof watches, 100m+, have small circular metal cases with metal backs that are screwed shut against a gasket. Some, like G-Shocks, have a proportionally thick stainless steel backplate screwed down, but the plate is what? 3 cm. Diagonal?

Doing so on a thin rectangular device with a reasonable cost is near impossible, too much flex.

That is actually fairly reasonable. I use a 5 yr old Xiaomi which a has 8Gb (as much as an entry level Surface or MacBook. Fuck AI) an octacore CPU, great camera, ultra fast charge, great battery etc. But I realize most people change phones every 2-3 years regardless of how well their phone works, because of “shiny new thing”

Do you seriously think they computerized cars to make them less repairable? That’s some tin foil hat stuff there.

They started computerizing cars to make them more efficient, reliable (ironically), safer, etc. The problem is that beyond OBDII there is no standard for diagnostics, and makers keep these proprietary.

It can be, but is a hassle. There are food safe filaments, there are filaments that “should be” safe, like unmodified PETG, but the issue is to make all parts that are in contact with the filament food safe; extruder gears, Bowden tubes and other guides, hot ends, etc…

I imagine that it would be a hassle for parts suppliers to certify the bajillion variations of these parts as food safe.