Late observation, but...
This feels like the perfect dishwasher to wash your glassware after using your Juicero!
Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM
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Oh c’mon, if I read those things I wouldn’t ever use a q-tip again in my life.
Just for god’s sake don’t put a Q-Tip in your ear! There’s even a warning on the package
They’re clearly designed and revised over the years for that express purpose. I understand why they have to put that warning on the box and not market it for that use…but they 100% know who their market is.
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Agree! please keep up the fight. Use the benefits (like ad blocking making YT watchable) to encourage other young people to fight too!
Hold on there. Ads popping up on YT are annoying but it's up to the user to decide if they are worth the content they're watching, same as TV or print or the radio. Using an Ad blocker in my view is no different than stealing.
I offer you a free cake, but every 4 bites you have to let me smash your thumb with a hammer.
How do you react?
1. Tell me to go to hell.
2. Try to figure out a way to eat the cake without getting your thumb smashed.
3. Accept the offer.
1 & 2 are perfectly rational human reactions. 3 probably indicates some degree of mental illness on your part.
There's also probably a deep sickness in the society and culture that allowed me to make the offer in the first place.
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#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can it be that we are just getting old? The new generation will have their brains wired to ignore ads, will be ok with devices spying on them (it will be called something else). And we will be something like that grandpa that can't unblock the mobile phone. (for example, use that new blockchain smart contract to open the fridge and order some food NFTs)
Maybe? My microwave has something like 20 buttons, I really wish it had two knobs: - Time - Power Hell, print a guide on the inside of the door on how to adjust power for defrosting or whatever. I rarely ever press more than :30 button, and changing power is more annoying than it should be. https://ellis.fyi/tag/knobs/
You can buy whiteware with a usable UI, but you need to go to a display room and try the models with the intent of checking usability, and then paying the premium that usually occurs. Also if possible talk to the service guys and work out what is reliable and maintainable.
I regularly hear people complain about their devices, because usability wasn’t considered due to different root causes. Some people don’t know anything about usability (not a “Senior Support Engineering Manager”), some people buy cheap, some people don’t get to choose (rent), many people don’t think to check usability, some people let their partner buy something unsuitable.
If you use a kitchen, then pay attention to what other practical friends use. Your appliances are tools you work with: spend effort to buy good tools.
I bought a Breville Quick Start microwave, chosen for combination of brand trust, price, and usability. It has a rotating power knob, a rotating timer knob, a 30 second quick start button, and a bunch of feature buttons which I don’t use hidden in the door jam. Rotate the knobs to change power or time while the microwave is running: https://www.breville.com/au/en/products/microwaves/bmo735.ht...
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#335unnecessary DRM like this should be illegal
There's no DRM though? This just looks like the simplest thing the engineers could have done - the only extra change they could have made is not requiring a cassette be present, I guess.
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#336Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is about dishwashers, but I once read about regulation-enforced water/energy-saving cycles resulting in ineffective cleaning, which backfired, as people then got in the habit of always selecting the heaviest cycle or even re-adopted pre-rinsing. Searching for the concept now, I can only find this article: https://www.wsj.com/articles/make-dishwashers-that-clean-aga...
My “modern” (20-year-old, which is solidly modern by this standard) dishwasher cleans much better than I remember my childhood dishwasher cleaning. It also doesn’t melt plastic on the bottom rack, which is a fantastic feature. The main downside is it takes two hours, and I think my childhood dishwasher took one hour. My modern front load washer gets clothes clean. It also doesn’t severely abrade them. As I understand…
Dishwashers take longer now because they only run half of the jets at once. Cycling between the top and bottom half. Cleans just as well, uses half the water, takes twice as long.
I can’t say I have ever really cared about the time taken for a dishwasher as it’s set and forget.
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#337Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can it be that we are just getting old? The new generation will have their brains wired to ignore ads, will be ok with devices spying on them (it will be called something else). And we will be something like that grandpa that can't unblock the mobile phone. (for example, use that new blockchain smart contract to open the fridge and order some food NFTs)
Societies and culture go in wrong directions frequently. The older you grow, the more experience and knowledge you have to recognize bad trends, anticonsumer practices, and outright abusive behaviors. While some of getting old for many is turning into a creature of habit fighting off any and all change, for many it's rejecting what is identified as bad/harmful change or change that exists for no apparent reason. Not…
A lot of the time HN users just have very different priorities and tolerances. I see all the time people ranting about induction stove touch controls. I have used both gas stoves and inductions for years and the touch controls never bothered me, yes they beep and disable if you spill water on them, but you wipe it with a paper towel and move on. While cleaning a gas stove with knobs is a huge pain that impacts me so much more.
There is no objectively right opinion. It just depends on how much you are bothered by either downside.
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#338I am, more and more, deliberately choosing boring technology. Knobs in the car and on appliances. No screen interfaces. Low-tech where possible. We just replaced our "high tech" Maytag dryer and its "advanced" feature set for a low tech SpeedQueen, the same dryers you find in most Laundromats. Why? Repairability. While we could _technically_ replace the burnt out fuse in the Maytag, it would take at least two hours f…
SpeedQueen owner here as well. Even more important than repairability is that the SpeedQueen actually cleans my clothes . In the 80s I remember coming home with mud caked on my clothes, shaking them off and throwing them in the washer. I'd even throw my muddy sneakers in the wash. If I try that with a modern low-water unit there's still dirt on them after a wash. The SpeedQueen will handle this kind of heavy soiling.…
Except speedqueen is a shell if itself. My dad recently got one, it's complete garbage. Yeah you can get parts for it, but it's missing the most basic features. No soak mode. He also complains it doesn't wash his clothes very well compared to his old washer that was a front loader. That thing lasted about 10 years too. After I think 2017 they started to really cheap out. Maytag now has a more professional line to target speedqueen buyers. Out of all the major appliances though the biggest thing to do is avoid ALL korean brands unless you're in South Korea.
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#339Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can it be that we are just getting old? The new generation will have their brains wired to ignore ads, will be ok with devices spying on them (it will be called something else). And we will be something like that grandpa that can't unblock the mobile phone. (for example, use that new blockchain smart contract to open the fridge and order some food NFTs)
Maybe? My microwave has something like 20 buttons, I really wish it had two knobs: - Time - Power Hell, print a guide on the inside of the door on how to adjust power for defrosting or whatever. I rarely ever press more than :30 button, and changing power is more annoying than it should be. https://ellis.fyi/tag/knobs/
Discussions around microwaves are always so fascinating as it's hard to tell for instance if you just don't care at all, or if you decided to micro-manage your device temperature and mode to get tailored results no automation would provide.
As an example pre-steaming has become a well rounded feature, and it will be done as a separate phase during the pre-heating, to switch to full-blown oven mode from there. I could totally time and set it all myself, but honestly I wouldn't bother half of the time and settle for the worse result to spare my time.
Same for cycle like lower temperature fermentation -> cooking for bread dow, or auto-stop by temperature detection for simple reheating.
All of these actually work well, and I feel in the "before" time we were just more accepting of mediocre results and/or spending half a day on it.
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#340Reminds me of the Juicero [1]: an attempt to bring DRM to fruit juice. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Cp-BGQfpHQ
I often wonder what the CEO and investors of Juicero actually felt when the video of the ease to self-squeeze was released. I can't imagine that level of just instantly knowing everything you've worked on is absolutely fucked and there can be absolutely no recovery or hope for it.
He went all in to raw water. Seriously.