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So many angry people here using any excuse they can to shit-talk this guy. It's almost like I'm on Reddit and someone has made the mistaking of expressing a shred of admiration for Elon Musk.
I'm guessing you don't live in a country whose politics he manipulates and whose tax he avoids.
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I really dislike Dyson. 1) Move to Singapore, citing that Britain won't join the euro as a factor. 2) EU energy efficiency test goes against his product 3) Campaigns for Brexit I had one of his vacuum cleaners and it was under powered and always needed cleaning inside. I got a Meile with a bag afterwards. Much more powerful for less money.
Completely different vacuum cleaners, there's a dedicated reddit for it. Check it out.
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Brother printers are consistently reliable and high quality, particularly the laser jet ones. I highly recommend getting one that doesn't have a scanner also, they just do one thing, really really well.
Eh, the multifunction one I bought a year ago told me the toner was out and wouldn't print until I reset the counter using some obscure menu process. I have printed hundreds of pages since then, so they apparently are into scamming just like the rest.
Well, the worst product I own is one of his bagless vacuum cleaners. The crummy look and feel, the unbelievably loud and high-pitched whine and the accompanying tinnitus-inducing higher order acoustic harmonics, and just the overall plasticky shittiness of it after about an hour of dragging it around is simply vomit-inducing. My pet hate is the 100x added friction between the retractable bristles and my plush carpet.…
It's funny how polarizing they are. I have one of the handheld battery powered ones with the long stick so you can clean the floor, and it honestly works better than any vacuum cleaner I've ever owned before, and pulling the lever to dump out the contents into the trash is immensely satisfying. I love it. I definitely think that people hate more things, in the past few years. It's no longer enough just to dislike som…
But then hate doesn't describe a feeling, in the same way that yuck is not a taste descriptor. Hate's become an individual reflex, that when aggregated seems to boil over online like an orchestra of diet coke and mentos.
To be fair to the vacuum cleaner, it probably has saved its worth in bags :)
Well, the worst product I own is one of his bagless vacuum cleaners. The crummy look and feel, the unbelievably loud and high-pitched whine and the accompanying tinnitus-inducing higher order acoustic harmonics, and just the overall plasticky shittiness of it after about an hour of dragging it around is simply vomit-inducing. My pet hate is the 100x added friction between the retractable bristles and my plush carpet.…
It's funny how polarizing they are. I have one of the handheld battery powered ones with the long stick so you can clean the floor, and it honestly works better than any vacuum cleaner I've ever owned before, and pulling the lever to dump out the contents into the trash is immensely satisfying. I love it. I definitely think that people hate more things, in the past few years. It's no longer enough just to dislike som…
FWIW: I like my Dyson handheld and it works well. We had one at my parents as well and it could do the two floors without any issue.
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I find their stick vacuums are complete junk. I'll never buy a Dyson again. They get clogged almost every time you use them (you gotta either jam a butter knife down the main intake or take apart the filter, both susceptible to blockage). The max button gets stuck in the on position, the battery only lasts a few months. I don't understand the appeal at all.
The max button is like the old turbo button for your computer. Does anyone really use 'slow' mode?
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I really dislike Dyson. 1) Move to Singapore, citing that Britain won't join the euro as a factor. 2) EU energy efficiency test goes against his product 3) Campaigns for Brexit I had one of his vacuum cleaners and it was under powered and always needed cleaning inside. I got a Meile with a bag afterwards. Much more powerful for less money.
Then the ventilators thing happened. "Don't give resources to medical firms that know how to build ventilators...give it to Dyson who will build it faster, better...unapproved and a complete failure https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/apr/22/covid-lan...
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Completely different vacuum cleaners, there's a dedicated reddit for it. Check it out.
For the Meile or some other one? Please name it. Thanks.
Bag is in the "lower-end" "better", than bagless.
With bagless to get mostly the best experience (until you figure it out yourself) you will need the original bags from the manufacturer since they fit the best. Otherwise you can use other ones if you figured out it's been the same.
I choose for a bagless one, since my apartment isn't that big and my floor consist of wood. But the filter needs to be cleaned too, yes even the bagless ones need to be cleaned. But it depends how much stuff you are vacuuming and big your house is.
If I had two kids and a partner, I would take a industrial vacuum cleaner. (Since the price is not much higher than the consumer one.)
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Eh, the multifunction one I bought a year ago told me the toner was out and wouldn't print until I reset the counter using some obscure menu process. I have printed hundreds of pages since then, so they apparently are into scamming just like the rest.
They only tried to scam you once, and there was a way to reset it? Is "scam" really the parsimonious explanation here, rather than "sensor error"?
There's no reason it needs to actually block the printing - it could simply pop up with a warning saying that the toner is low and attempt to print anyway.
I'm not sure about Brother, but I do know that some other printer cartridges contain an electronic counter in them that will declare them as "out of ink" after printing a certain amount of pages (even if there's plenty of ink left in the cartridge).
I find it repulsive that his first recommendation to “inventors” is to file for a patent. Really, the most valuable piece of advice you have is “make sure you secure legal protection in case other people rip you off”? By all means, that's probably a thing you have to think about at some point, but surely there is more important advice for creatives than “lawyer up”.
For patents on physical things/devices, he's giving very good advice. You need to file within the 1st year you've used the item in commerce. The internet is littered with great products that weren't patented, then copied (sometimes by their overseas contract manufacturer itself just running a 2nd shift on the production line). If you don't have global patent protection, you find yourself competing with your own produ…