Buying an ejector seat for your living room is quite eccentric, but I wouldn’t really consider it overkill . It doesn’t even have arms.
For my office at the company I work at it would be perfect.
Is your “office” an F-16 by any chance?
Overkill objects for everyday life
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
Dishwashers are another example. You could buy a commercial one but it will come with no roll-out trays (you load up different plastic racks for different things and you can load a rack while the dishwasher is running) and it’s designed for an environment with lots of ventilation (you just open it when it is done and let the steam get ventilated away) which people are unlikely to have in their own kitchens. Other ite…
Tangentially related: if you do want an amazing electric coffee grinder, feel free to piggy back on my countless hours of research and go with this: Baratza Virtuoso+ It is excellent.
I bought an encore after much research myself and had to return it after just a few weeks. It started grinding my beans to an ultra fine espresso type consistency no matter what setting I used. After much troubleshooting, they sent me a new unit (in transit now), but not a great experience from the device perspective (customer service was great).
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That sounds incredibly slow in comparison to a bandsaw (also cheap crap from harbor freight -- but I got mine 20 years ago and it's still ticking along fine)
Bandsaws should only be used to make other larger bandsaws per @MatthiasWandel https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=MatthiasWandel
I'm pretty sure that I established that a bandsaw is a kitchen implement (and, it's not even a stretch -- they're common in butcher shops). Is it Alton Brown who says that single-use kitchen appliances are verboten? I tend to agree.
You can also use a bandsaw to cut a sliver off a sheet of 16ga steel and use that to light a cigarette. It's truly all-purpose
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#164I could get behind some of these. Like that Hobart mixer. Granted, I don't use a mixer 24/7 in a bakery, but my first Kitchen Aid overheated and broke after ~5 years. I'd prefer if commodity things, like computer mice, were made to last, and not $5 pieces of cheap plastic that end up in landfills. But I'm the person who complains about the tons of cheap plastic trash sold in 0.99 stores while able to afford $500 mixe…
Commercial kitchen equipment isn't always set up for 120V single phase operation.
If you really want to rewire your house to mix 20 gallons of dough at a time...go for it I suppose. But do the homework first.
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#165The recommendation for a commercial panel which avoids built smart TV functions is one I'm taking seriously. We have an Apple TV connected and use nothing else. Does anyone have experience or recommendations? Here is a link to NEC's commercial displays https://www.sharpnecdisplays.us/products/displays#2
I am planning to replace my existing tv from one of dell's conference room line once it finally quits on me. https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop/dell-55-4k-conference-r... The down ide is that they are up 25% in cost over 2019 but
Overall cost trends for anything electronic are going to be pretty weird this year given chip shortages.
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#166I use restaurant glassware at home. It's nice, yet minimalistic looking (to match any style restaurant/home), relatively cheap, very durable: https://shop.libbey.com/collections/beverageware/products/ba...
+1 for restaurant supply stores. You can find at least one in any reasonably sized city and they have just about everything you could possibly need, from tableware to cookware to appliances to bulk dry goods to cleaning and safety equipment. No frills and competitively priced.
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#167Definitely doing this, if I need something I will look for the industrial option first, we don't have a big military industrial complex in Denmark, so I can't go milspec. Vacuum cleaners is a great place to start,
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#168Using a ka-bar for hiking is a terrible idea. At 0.7lbs it weighs as much as a quality sleeping bag/tent/pack. Also, you likely don’t need a knife. Scissors are much more useful, and micro scissors weigh less than an ounce. Ultralight hiking adds an interesting forcing function to gear - correctly “built” (as in not overbuilt or under built). Bring the gear which matches the need. In essence, the complete opposite se…
You seem to be conflating hiking with backpacking.
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
“Engineered to fail” and “planned obsolescence” are both pejorative rephrasings of “consumers prioritize price” Engineering is an exercise in prioritization. If 90% of consumers buy the cheapest blender on the shelf, the blender made with the cheapest materials wins. Hobart still exists, and still makes good blenders. Consumers just started buying new designs that were more cost efficient. If you look at the prices o…
> “Engineered to fail” and “planned obsolescence” are both pejorative rephrasings of “consumers prioritize price” No. Of course, a part of potential lifetime loss is due to price. Manufacturing a case in plastic instead of carbon fiber is simply far cheaper and most consumer will go for that. However, we see cheaped out components even in high-priced or prosumer gear, while the existence of this market already pretty…
Yes, true planned obsolescence has happened. But it’s a lot less common than people think, and often prohibited by law.
Even the “slowing down of old iPhones” is an example of that. This was a bug fix for crashing due to current demand that exceeded the battery’s capability.
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#170I could get behind some of these. Like that Hobart mixer. Granted, I don't use a mixer 24/7 in a bakery, but my first Kitchen Aid overheated and broke after ~5 years. I'd prefer if commodity things, like computer mice, were made to last, and not $5 pieces of cheap plastic that end up in landfills. But I'm the person who complains about the tons of cheap plastic trash sold in 0.99 stores while able to afford $500 mixe…
Commercial kitchen equipment isn't always set up for 120V single phase operation. If you really want to rewire your house to mix 20 gallons of dough at a time...go for it I suppose. But do the homework first.
Sure some of it is but certainly not all of it. Also there are reasonably sized mixers like GP said