Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier

Post by bradlys » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 2:33 PM UTC

framapotari wrote: post #617

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It’s really not. People tend to only form unions when they feel that they’re being unjustly treated and this is one of their last resorts.

This is an extremely American -- and misinformed -- view of unions. Where I'm from unions are the default, not formed as a last resort to unjust treatment but a natural counterbalance to corporate/institutional power. Someone saying they'd rather not have their workers form a union is not pro-union. That's like saying you support workers sharing information but you would be offended if your workers talked about their…

Post by GekkePrutser » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 2:54 PM UTC

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As an Apple fanboy, I can easily say that Linus does not hate Apple. Linus DOES hate a lot of what Apple does; cases where they make things more unrepairable for no real reason, or various socio-political causes (like opposing Right to Repair or unions or whatever). Regardless of that though, I would trust a Linus review of a new iPhone or iPad a lot more than I would trust a lot of other sites, because I know he's n…

As an Apple apologist, I also concur with most of the above. Though I do find it amusing that Linus has often commented negatively on companies that don't want their employes to unionise, when Linus does much the same thing. In the case of LMG, Linus employs emotional threats, publicly warning his employees that forming a union would represent a declaration of "personal failure". Don't get me wrong, I agree 100% with…

Post by samatman » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 3:01 PM UTC

thaumasiotes wrote: post #562

addicted wrote: post #392

This article actually makes a bunch of claims itself that are false. For example, it claims that the Wirecutter believes air filters work like sieves. Whereas the Wirecutter review page for air purifiers goes into how they do not behave like sieves and also references a NASA study that shows how HEPA filters are good at capturing both particles smaller and larger than the 0.3 micron test standard. It’s pretty obvious…

> This article actually makes a bunch of claims itself that are false. There's this howler: > This passage implies that a (“true”?) HEPA filter is designed to capture particles that are 0.3 microns or larger. But an H13 filter must, by definition, capture 99.95% of particles of all sizes. According to this guy, an H13 filter is required to capture 99.95% of neutrinos that pass through it. He's not in a position to ac…

Post by SlimyHog » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 3:08 PM UTC

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I find that the Wirecutter is awesome for things I will never go into stupendous depth for on my own — like spatulas. For anything more serious than that, it has increasingly been on the decline for years.

I’ve just learned to never trust them on headphones lol

Post by sixothree » Tue, Jun 21, 2022, 3:42 PM UTC

danudey wrote: post #432

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I want to second the gamers nexus recommendation here. (To be frank, I think LMG labs is very much inspired by what GN has been doing over the last year or two.)

I go with LTT if I want to know if a laptop is good to use or not. I go with Gamer's Nexus if I want to know if a GPU used the wrong kind of thermal interface for their VRMs and what effect that has on core clocks second by second, backed by rigorous scientific benchmarks producing huge amounts of data, summarized in highly detailed graphs.