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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Chest freezers go in the garage and store meat. I don't disagree.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Even the expensive ones break stupidly easy. Samsungs have notorious ice maker overflows and failures. LGs have compressor issues. KitchenAid is stupid expensive and puts the water dispenser inside which is a deal breaker for many. So what did I do when our five year old bottom freezer Samsung fridge started building footprint sized ice on the bottom? That's right, I paid $25 for the repair manual and figured out on my own how to fix/clear the defrost drain that was clogged. On one hand, I can understand modern unreasonable customer expectations being a huge pain in the rear end causing grief. I've also heard many stories of "had to replace the computer" and maybe there is very little mechanically in common with appliances between the 80s and now to make professional repair an always moving target and therefore financially unfeasible. On the other hand, my amateur appliance sleuthing turned out to be the exact solution and three years later the problem hasnt returned. While I "only" spent $25 for the manual pdf, for the time I spent searching for it and the actual time disassembling, diagnosing, fixing, reassembling, verifying the fix, it would have been worth it to me to have an expert fix it for a couple hundred dollars.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Chest freezers go in the garage and store meat. And homemade bread. And chili.
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Cheesus posted:While repairing our 1980s driers heating element, the repair man glanced at our existing appliance menagerie and told me straight up not to call him for LG or Samsung appliances. LG maeks a good washer and drier but their kitchen appliances suck. Samsung just sucks at appliances across the board last I checked on consumer ratings sites and review sites. And the refrigerator I own, which also sucks but apparently retailed at 3k(came with the house). It's a French door model which places the icemaker in the refrigerator part, so it's a fundamentally bad idea and breaks a lot. Bosch dishwashers loving own though.
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Jaxyon posted:Bosch dishwashers loving own though. 
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Cheesus posted:On the other hand, my amateur appliance sleuthing turned out to be the exact solution and three years later the problem hasnt returned. While I "only" spent $25 for the manual pdf, for the time I spent searching for it and the actual time disassembling, diagnosing, fixing, reassembling, verifying the fix, it would have been worth it to me to have an expert fix it for a couple hundred dollars.
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Heck Yes! Loam! posted:Chest freezers go in the garage and store meat.
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Jaxyon posted:LG maeks a good washer and drier but their kitchen appliances suck. Samsung actually has a pretty good reliability if you go by stats. Their reputation has come from their success, they make everything and sell tons, and we know people mostly only review stuff when they are unhappy. Bosch are the best for dish washers though. The only thing Samsung actually does poorly is the kitchen stove.
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Arsenic Lupin posted:And homemade bread. And chili. They store the years harvest of berries.
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Foxfire_ posted:The economics are hard to make work for skilled appliance repairwork. I'd put the amount of knowledge you'd need to work on a useful variety of appliances as comparable to a plumber, and a plumber charges ~$150/hr (or way more depending on the area). Plus plumbing jobs are usually bigger so travel time doesn't matter as much. This is pretty much it. A family member used to work as a electronics repairman, mainly fixing TV's and radios. It was good work in the nineties, but over the years the products became dramatically cheaper, while at the same time becoming much more complicated to repair. Appearantly manufacturers also became much more stingy about sharing technical details and schematics.
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from the shad thread https://newsbeezer.com/czechrepubliceng/a-chess-robot-in-moscow-has-broken-the-finger-of-its-human-opponent/ According to the organizers of the tournament in the Russian capital, it was an “accidental” attack by the robot. A seven-year-old boy named Christopher, who, by the way, according to them, is among the top 30 chess players in Moscow under the age of nine, moved a piece on the chessboard earlier than he should, which led to the non-standard behavior of the robot. The AI robotic arm grabbed the young player’s index finger and squeezed his finger firmly. The people around the boy immediately rushed to help, but did not prevent the consequences in the form of a broken finger. https://twitter.com/xakpc/status/1550224137041371144
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There's a term for this chess move
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Mega Comrade posted:Samsung actually has a pretty good reliability if you go by stats.
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Why does a chess playing robot need the strength of 3 people
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AvesPKS posted:Why does a chess playing robot need the strength of 3 people Yeah, it's been a long while since I played around with one of those, but I'm pretty sure they generally have sensors telling you how much force/torque they're currently exerting, and consequently let you limit the maximum force you want to use.
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AvesPKS posted:Why does a chess playing robot need the strength of 3 people It's to stop people from cheating.
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Pretty much the number 1 thing that you learn about industrial robots is that they are not supposed to move when there are humans around and you need to control the area where the robot operates so that humans can't get there when they are not supposed to So it seems to me that this thing was built by a moron Obfuscation fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Jul 24, 2022 |
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Orio posted:This is pretty much it. A family member used to work as a electronics repairman, mainly fixing TV's and radios. It was good work in the nineties, but over the years the products became dramatically cheaper, while at the same time becoming much more complicated to repair. Appearantly manufacturers also became much more stingy about sharing technical details and schematics. And parts. There are very common tiny things that go bad (think individual chips) in a lot of stuff that are not commodity electronic components. They are worth a dollar or two at the most, so at $20 you'd think they could make money on selling them as repair parts. But often they don't, and you have to buy the assembly which is typically a board and usually the MAIN board. So now you're left with a $250 repair part for a TV that only cost $400 three years ago. You have to think hard about it to even repair that yourself. There is literally zero profit left for an actual repair service to be able to perform this service. How did we get here? It's not just that electronics have gotten inexpensive to purchase: they're being built disposable on purpose.
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Motronic posted:And parts. There are very common tiny things that go bad (think individual chips) in a lot of stuff that are not commodity electronic components. They are worth a dollar or two at the most, so at $20 you'd think they could make money on selling them as repair parts. But often they don't, and you have to buy the assembly which is typically a board and usually the MAIN board. So now you're left with a $250 repair part for a TV that only cost $400 three years ago. While I don't disagree. I fix all my own stuff all the time. I also run a small manufacturer and even though our products are simple, to allow every component its own sellable sku within modern engineering and sales distribution is nuts. "The way things work" would have to change significantly to allow companies to do this easily. Most of the cost of products to consumers is the logistics chain itself, not the physical part.
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BlueBlazer posted:While I don't disagree. I fix all my own stuff all the time. I also run a small manufacturer and even though our products are simple, to allow every component its own sellable sku within modern engineering and sales distribution is nuts. "The way things work" would have to change significantly to allow companies to do this easily. Most of the cost of products to consumers is the logistics chain itself, not the physical part. I'm not suggesting everything on the BOM should be sold. But when you have a single chip that is taking out all of your 2+ year old TVs that you had made in some factory that nobody else can get there's no "stealing parts from another one that's broken a different way" because they're all broken the same way. The logistics of this supply chain do not cost $249. Maybe they do for "small manufacturer", but economies of scale absolutely apply to this and LG, Sony, etc have that scale. It's also not a novel concept. It's been done before. All the way back in the 50s and probable before that. Back in those days is wasn't chips but things like hand rolled capacitors made on nerly a per product basis. RCA used to be just lousy with that. It's the exact same concept. Yes, I'm using a very specific example here, but only because it's a very middle of the road common one that I've seen over and over again in the last decade or so.
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Things have gotten a lot difficult to fix by yourself, even with the aid of YT videos and poo poo like that. It can be very tough to disassemble things and GET to the part you need to replace, especially with cars, and so often the faulty element is a computer part so unless you have knowledge dealing with things like that, then good loving luck. I always TRY to repair my broken things first before I call a repair person and, typically, the cost of the repair brushes right up next to the cost of just buying a new __________. Nine times out of ten, even with the guides I look up, I wind up somehow making poo poo worse.
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BiggerBoat posted:Things have gotten a lot difficult to fix by yourself, even with the aid of YT videos and poo poo like that. It can be very tough to disassemble things and GET to the part you need to replace, especially with cars, and so often the faulty element is a computer part so unless you have knowledge dealing with things like that, then good loving luck. The repair person is the landlord tho??? Like yeah rent is too much no argument there but repairs are at least included
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I fixed the igniter in my oven with the aid of a YouTube video. That's the only thing that's gone wrong with any of my appliances. However, whilst waiting for the replacement igniter to arrive, I bought a toaster oven so I could, uh, cook, and the toaster oven is so far superior for everything except cooking things that simply will not fit in the toaster oven, that I haven't used the repaired oven since. I'm not making roast dinners for four.
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mandatory lesbian posted:The repair person is the landlord tho??? Not if I own the house, no.
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BiggerBoat posted:Not if I own the house, no. Sounds like owning a house is a trap
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mandatory lesbian posted:Sounds like owning a house is a trap It absolutely is but you at least get equity out of your monthly rent payment.
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Also depending on when and where you bought your house, your mortgage payment is like half the cost of renting a comparable space, so you can use the money you save to sink into the rest of the poo poo in your house.
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yeah mortgages don't go up like rent does and they're a lot cheaper than renting. my mortgage is around $900 depending on escrow and renting a similar size space in this neighborhood is well over $2000 if you plan on living somewhere for more than a few years, or if you've got kids and want to stay in one school district, then buying is cheaper in the long run. if you're moving frequently or want to retain the flexibility of being able to move, renting has advantages, because you have to throw a lot of money on the table to get a mortgage and it takes like five years before you break even on that compared to renting
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Mr. Fall Down Terror posted:yeah mortgages don't go up like rent does and they're a lot cheaper than renting. my mortgage is around $900 depending on escrow and renting a similar size space in this neighborhood is well over $2000 The other thing that a lot of “renting vs buying” cost comparisons frequently gloss over is that even if the rent and mortgage repayments cost the same, the latter has capital repayments which are actual wealth generation, whereas rental payments are just money spent by the renter with no longer term benefit. There’s a ton of these comparisons floating around financial social media accounts, but they seem to at least get called out as bullshit with increasing frequency. Especially annoying are the ones that go “well one just has money going to the bank which is the same as the landlord” - ok buddy, whatever you need to say to keep your renters thinking like it doesn’t matter in the end.
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Yeah, that was the bullshit I extremely bought into when I was younger and literally had no other choice but to rent. And tbh I'd still be renting if I was on my own, only reason we're able to own is because my partner is so much financially smarter than me, a giant idiot.
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Obfuscation posted:Pretty much the number 1 thing that you learn about industrial robots is that they are not supposed to move when there are humans around and you need to control the area where the robot operates so that humans can't get there when they are not supposed to I think you will find that it is actually the 7-year-old's kid fault for interacting with the robot wrong quote:“There are certain safety rules and the child, apparently, violated them. When he made his move, he did not realise he first had to wait,” Smagin said. “This is an extremely rare case, the first I can recall,” he added.
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Good news everyone: the robot was in no danger.
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withak posted:Good news everyone: the robot was in no danger. Hey it's pretty likely the kid would of broken the robots fingers if it tried to cheat. That's just like how chess is played.
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dr_rat posted:Hey it's pretty likely the kid would of broken the robots fingers if it tried to cheat. The scene in Darkman where he breaks the carnie's fingers for accusing him of being ahead of the line for the ball throwing game.
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https://twitter.com/fluepke/status/1549892089181257729 RIP to any sensitive information on Confluence, I guess? And also whoever approved and implemented this not-so-great-sounding idea.
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I dont think it applies to their Saas, so all those thinga are true because they do none of them with their on prem solutions
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eXXon posted:https://twitter.com/fluepke/status/1549892089181257729 This is in a Confluence plugin, not in Confluence itself, so only installations with that plugin installed are vulnerable. Also, publicly revealing the password on Twitter is absolutely a dick move. The security advisory warning of the issue and the update with fixes had both been released before that tweet. but that person was apparently offended for some reason that the company was trying to keep the actual password itself out of wide circulation, and so they went to some effort to track it down and publicize it, giving users just a single day to update before deciding to pull "information should be free" bullshit on a backdoor password to people's systems. https://twitter.com/fluepke/status/1550042659238170625
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