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[–] apotheotic@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Tag yourself I'm cheese square

[–] j4k3@piefed.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If you're talking about the piefed tags, we need an auto tagger of some sort. I do not use tags for anything outside of AI fine tuning and training. I do not know the scope of use, and creating a bunch of single occurrence tags is beyond useless like what archive dot org has devolved into. We must have a system like gelbooru/danbooru for tags selection and moderation if that is to be sustainable or useful over time... or I simply do not understand the use scope.

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[–] fubarx@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

Anything in the bottom two rows (other than hex) and you are welcome to curse the ancestry of the person who decided to use that type of fastener.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago (7 children)

Wonder what the usecase for "H-type" would be

[–] Bluewing@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

A mildly tamper proof fastener.

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 3 points 4 days ago

Anti-tamper.

I've seen them used to screw together toilet stalls in public bathrooms. Stops bored crackheads disassembling them.

For vocalists, if the only tool they have is a tuning fork.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

trolling someone

[–] DacoTaco@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Anti tamper and devices not intended to be opened. Ive seen them on european power bricks and blocks

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 0 points 4 days ago

usecase

use-case, right?

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[–] takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Nice drawing, but how exactly is this a guide?

I would actually love to see explanation of what is best use case for the screws (the first two rows)

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 4 points 4 days ago

You only need Torx screws (six-lobe) The only reason to have a bit set with the rest of the heads is so that you can remove an old fastener and replace it with torx.

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[–] Alcan@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Give me a bunch of flat phillips/slot and I'll assemble the world

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Now what I want is a chart of use cases with them all listed in order by usability for each use case.

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[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (4 children)
[–] NaibofTabr 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Everything should be a bolt head, you strip bolt heads from incorrect spanners or when shits fucked.

Everything else just fails.

Today I had a 10mm Allen key head strip internally because it was just to damn tight from rust.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Bolt heads stand proud. You can't build a deck with them.

[–] Aussiemandeus@aussie.zone 2 points 4 days ago

Just extra grippy

[–] Mpatch@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

It's a feature not a fault.

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