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Cake day: November 12th, 2024

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  • Switching cost is a lie.

    It is very much a reality. One that tech companies have put hard work into creating, with vertical integration and contractual locking down of spare parts, which could otherwise have been components for anyone’s DIY project.

    My current phone cost < $200 and I always tend to buy lower cost phones.
    Now, if I were to buy something like a Fairphone, I would be looking into getting something shipped here, which would incur additional fuel costs and on top of that, taxes. And then add to that, that all future spare parts will require a similar effort, it becomes unfeasible to me real fast.
    The only way it makes sense, is if someone in my country starts considering doing the same thing, which requires a great change in a lot of people’s mindset.

    And that is why “European countries are changing”, slowly. It will take more than a little while and so will all other countries. It will require people to have enough time and aptitude to start realising what kind of a society is actually worth working towards and much more to have enough people act on it.






  • knife thing is annoying

    Yeah, that was the first thing I found out, looking at the picture.
    One would have to tilt the holder backward to take out the knife and then make a very unnatural feeling motion to get it towards themselves. Even worse if there is no space behind the rack (there is a window in the picture that will enable that if opened)









  • From what we know, carpets tend to create static electricity when rubbed, which might happen in situations where it is tread upon, which causes it to get charged. We also know, that since the materials used for carpets are bad conductors of electricity, having them stapled at only certain points won’t cause a significant grounding effect.

    Now to design socks that use said static charge to electrocute the wearer hold onto the carpet better, reducing slippage.



  • In a flight of stairs, if even one step is off 1/8 of an inch or 3mm, it can cause someone to trip.

    I like running up stairs. Specially when there are a lot of them.

    When I enter a new building, I go slowly, getting a feel of each rise. If it turns out to be not runnable, I then walk the same way all the time. Otherwise, I get to have fun, starting the next time.

    That 1 off-step would make me hate whomever worked on that stair. That would increase by the amount of time I would have planned on staying at that place.