psud

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Yeah, I got my first office job thanks to Y2K. An enormous amount was spent fixing it, with some of the fixes needed years before 2000-01-01, for example systems that projected into the future

Biggest problem I saw was a program that stored 1999 as 99 and displayed "19".year

So when set to January 2000 it showed 19100. Its calculations were fine, just its display and reports were wrong

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

The problem with microwaves is the ones from the '80s were far less powerful than new ones

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

I guess you assign no value to the waste of using 3 to 4 times the number of machines

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

Your product would be about three times the price of the cheap shit.

It might work in the current world with good advertising - Smarter Every Day (on YouTube) is part of a project to make a better, made in America, barbeque ~brush~ cleaner

There are a few companies now selling better quality stuff successfully, but I have seen no one doing so in whitegoods

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

I spent a thousand dollars replacing the cheap compressor in my fridge because I asked the repair guy to replace it with better quality than it originally came with, and he used a commercial (as opposed to residential) grade compressor that was three times the price

But aside from a short lifetime, the big problem with cheap AC motors is they're imprecisely built and often waste more electricity as heat and noise than they put into their output shaft

Of course even with the better stuff there still "cot death" where a new product fails almost immediately (because noone tests their products), but at least those failures are under warranty, the cheap motors typically last at least a few years

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Rhymes with rot

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Wouldn't it have been nice though to have a local English printer set spelling to their local style rather than a foreigner setting spelling to their foreign tastes?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It is specifically about causing an imagined future crisis to happen as soon as possible to get to the imagined golden age following it

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago

I use keepass, it's a little more work than many closed source ones, but it's only as online as you want it to be, and runs on anything

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 1 month ago

My "smart" bulbs are at the less online end of the spectrum, they host local wifi or bluetooth for configuration via their app, but even that can bite you

I added a wifi range extender to address the problem of stuff at one end of the house regularly losing connection and needed to point one of a particular brand at the new wifi

Its app hadn't been updated and I needed to dig out my old phone stuck on an old version of Android to set the bulb up again

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You lost a bit of credibility when you misspelt atoms

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 1 month ago

There are rules in Australia that if you set a trap for an animal you must check the trap at least daily. I don't know that people actually follow that when it comes to nice though

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