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[-] sundray@lemmus.org 3 points 1 month ago

I feel confident about the quality of the construction of the piece of furniture this was sent with.

[-] sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

It's just for my 300 foot zipline for babies

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

As someone with a set of the common tools, I hate how everything comes with shitty tools, just adding more weight and waste. Like even fucking replacement batteries for console controllers came with a little screwdriver.

And I bet it's all because of those shitty customers that complain about stupid shit like "I don't have the correct tools to use this thing I ordered" and enabling managers that bend over backwards instead of just saying "go to your hardware store and buy a fucking tool" or "look in a mirror" and hanging up on them.

Like how do you even function as a competent adult without some basic tools? Do you just accept that this door with a loose hinge is a pain to close? That this knob or handle just wobbles? That the handle on that shitty pot or pan might just come off as you try to lift the boiling water or even hotter oil inside it, or are pots and pans just too complicated in the first place?

Or is that why people have so many financial issues because the moment something needs some maintenance, it's time to call someone or toss it into the trash and buy a new one?

Prusa gives you the option to save $21 by leaving out the tool pack on an MMU3, because logically you already have the same tools if you built a printer.

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago

Great work!

[-] jj4211@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

True spirit of 'fix it in documentation'

[-] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

There's also this fix

And these other breaks.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It's for left-handed people.

[-] Bonesince1997@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago
[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago

The Japanese says "plus driver", which is a better name than "phillips head screwdriver" imo.

[-] Dicska@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

Hell, we call it something like "star head screwdriver" and still everyone knows what it means (no, don't bring up more than 4 apexes (apices)). Imagine moving to a random country and they recommend you to buy an Intel layout keyboard or a Sony audio socket.

[-] MutilationWave@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 month ago

Sorry, I'm gonna. Where I live if people call something star head they're talking about Torx.

[-] Sasquatch@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago

Japan typically uses JIS over Phillips though, right?

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Apparently not since 2008, when JIS B 1012 was replaced with ISO 7864, which specifies a more universal cross-head screw drive designed to function well with both Phillips and JIS drivers, alongside a move away from cross-head screws in favor of ISO flavored metric Allen cap screws or Torx bolts.

Then there's Pozidriv, because Europe had the exact same idea as the Japanese: "Let's create our own, better Phillips that won't work with Phillips drivers. I'm smart and am helping." Technically better for all the same reasons Torx is, while being easily confused for Phillips.

Meanwhile, Canada's had it solved from the beginning with the Robertson drive. "Hey ya hosers, just make yer screwdriver square on the end dere. It's like poutine, it's simple and yet pretty good, eh?"

[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago
[-] daychilde@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

It is said, "There's always an xkcd." But in fact, there are always multiple xkcds. :)

[-] J92@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

I'd cut the diagram out and mount it in a frame alongside the tool. It's excellent.

I went to a friend's house where her great auntie had mounted a clothes peg in a frame because the orientation of the spring over the wooden arm was the opposite to any she had seen before. And I'm clearly still thinking about it now, some 15 years later.

[-] disorderly@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

Good art makes you feel something. Great art changes you for life.

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