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jammyozzy posted:We inherited a Dyson vacuum and despite being horrid & plasticky the stupid thing is a decade+ old and refuses to die. My brain cannot allow me to spend £ on 'just' a QOL improvement so I'm gonna be lugging this piece of crap around until it breaks irreperably. vacuum cleaners generally work fine for 30-50 years regardless of brand. just install (and replace occasionally) some filters and use Good Bags and Shitsuck 5000 from 1984 is as good as anything you can buy today. LIFE HACK: if your vacuum cleaner sucks by not sucking, it's about 100% certain the problem is the lovely terrible bags you're buying. 3D Megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 12:41 on Apr 19, 2022 |
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check the bag every so often and empty/replace it instead of using it until it's solid as a brick and then wondering why the motor burnt out
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Apr 19, 2022 12:41
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old ones works better than new ones due to eu regulations, don't they? there were no limits before on how much wattage there could be, now there's a ceiling that everyone must adhere to
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Apr 19, 2022 12:43
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Tankakern posted:old ones works better than new ones due to eu regulations, don't they? there were no limits before on how much wattage there could be, now there's a ceiling that everyone must adhere to eh, how stubborn is you're dust anyway? new ones work just fine. e: maybe the old ones sucked harder but they were also pulling the air through literal paper. you can still buy paper bags for newer models too but only a complete imbecile would do so for obvious reasons. (also when they fill up they don't clog the thing, they burst and THEN clog the thing).
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Apr 19, 2022 12:46
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old ones work better because they were built up to a standard rather than down to a price. vacuums weren't cheap, but it was expected they would last 20/30/40/50 years. now (~2000+) they are all cheap plastic poo poo that stops working the first time it accidentally gets knocked over.
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does anyone still use carpet sweepers that are like a non-vacuum manual vacuum cleaner
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MononcQc posted:does anyone still use carpet sweepers that are like a non-vacuum manual vacuum cleaner yes
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MononcQc posted:does anyone still use carpet sweepers that are like a non-vacuum manual vacuum cleaner
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Sweevo posted:old ones work better because they were built up to a standard rather than down to a price. vacuums weren't cheap, but it was expected they would last 20/30/40/50 years. now (~2000+) they are all cheap plastic poo poo that stops working the first time it accidentally gets knocked over. i have a miele C3 canister vacuum that i bought 8 years ago and it’s working great and i expect it to work great for another 20+ years, uses bags and has a HEPA filter. just don’t by a $80 bagless or whatever, buy a nice vacuum. EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Apr 19, 2022 |
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Apr 19, 2022 14:24
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mystes posted:No why would anyone want to use a simple low tech solution when they can buy more gadgets? the one my parents had in the 90s was just a loving sad affair that worked less effectively than a broom on a non-carpeted floor and also worse than a vacuum on a carpet. I don't know if they got better since then though.
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MononcQc posted:the one my parents had in the 90s was just a loving sad affair that worked less effectively than a broom on a non-carpeted floor and also worse than a vacuum on a carpet. I don't know if they got better since then though. nah they'll always suck. but you shouldn't vacuum or beat a lot of hand-made rugs. e: actually, come to think of it, iäm not sure you should use a sweeper either so gently caress if i know vOv
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:i have a miele C3 canister vacuum that i bought 8 years ago and it’s working great and i expect it to work great for another 20+ years, uses bags and has a HEPA filter. i bought a $50 bagless and it's fine
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all the cheap(er) vacuum cleaners i've "experienced"* have had the same problem: they'll get you evicted because they're really fuken loud. but an expensive bagless philips was also fuken loud so idk *) no not in that way you pervert
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carry on then posted:i bought a $50 bagless hookers have names you know
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:i have a miele C3 canister vacuum that i bought 8 years ago and it’s working great and i expect it to work great for another 20+ years, uses bags and has a HEPA filter. I've been eyeing those, but in the mean time my old bagless is trucking fine. if its gotta be bagless at least get one with several filters; they help immensely over the plain spinning canister design cheaper ones use
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MononcQc posted:does anyone still use carpet sweepers that are like a non-vacuum manual vacuum cleaner we have one of those lil non-powered push sweepers in my team's area at work, and it's surprisingly effective at getting up little stuff, and idk it's kind of satisfying to use. we end up with a cascading effect anytime someone uses it, where then everyone else wants to use it too. would absolutely not use it for real vacuuming needs, but for office type low pile carpet and misc crumbs, it's fine.
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3D Megadoodoo posted:all the cheap(er) vacuum cleaners i've "experienced"* have had the same problem: they'll get you evicted because they're really fuken loud. but an expensive bagless philips was also fuken loud so idk just vacuum at a reasonable hour instead of 4am and this is less of a problem
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sb hermit posted:I remember putting a battery into it to try out the tamagotchi aspect of sonic adventure and realized very quickly that it was a waste of time. I still don't know anyone that actually enjoyed raising chao. I did, but I'm also the kind of person who got super sucked into Viva Pinata multiple times.
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sb hermit posted:Never forget that the little beep you hear on a dreamcast controller is not for letting you know that the VMU is turning on. I recall the batteries in those things not lasting long at all, and it was basically worthless so they were never replaced. I'd also love to know how the designer of the dreamcast controller decided that the cord should come out of the bottom of it, instead of the top like every other controller in existence
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EIDE Van Hagar posted:i have a miele C3 canister vacuum that i bought 8 years ago and it’s working great and i expect it to work great for another 20+ years, uses bags and has a HEPA filter. we have this one too and its pretty good. recommended yosvac imo
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idk how sega does it but their 3d games felt really solid and the controls felt super responsive like daytona, crazy taxi, sega rally, virtua fighter just had really great game UX. dreamcast was a really nice console. I've never really been able to get over sony making the dual analog and then the dual shock by just janking two sticks on the bottom of the original PS1 controller, instead of an xbox/switch style layout with an analog in the normal left-thumb position. because of that simple stupid thing I've found playstations generally annoying as a concept since the ps2 and pine for an alternate reality where sega won and sony focused on making nice audio equipment instead
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I inherited my mum's fancy Electrolux or Rosenlew or whatever, and it's real quiet but she'd broken the normal head (the one where you can retract the brush) and it costs like 80€ so I'm just vacuuming everything with a brush head. Anyway it came with some scented balls you're supposed to put in the bag for IDK reasons? and they're great if you want your home to smell like dusty parma violets
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Gentle Autist posted:idk how sega does it but their 3d games felt really solid and the controls felt super responsive if you can handle switching where the a button is on nintendo's controllers vs everywhere else, you can handle the analog stick being in a slightly different location
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First jumping to the alternate universe where I told everybody on the playground that my uncle worked at Sega.
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my grandparents installed a central vacuum system in their vacation house and i love how funky it is. there are outlets throughout the place you plug the hose of the attachment into, which connects to a central vacuum tank in the garage. it's unnecessarily complicated and extremely ineffective
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:unnecessarily complicated and extremely ineffective google translate posted:yospos: superflue turpis et maxime inefficax
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:my grandparents installed a central vacuum system in their vacation house and i love how funky it is. there are outlets throughout the place you plug the hose of the attachment into, which connects to a central vacuum tank in the garage. it's unnecessarily complicated and extremely ineffective i remember when i was a kid there was a massive advertisement campaign to push central vacuums, like every time you turned on the TV it was "kaikki pois kaikki pois pölyt putkia pitkin pois" (very catchy, isn't it) but literally no-one got one.
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FMguru posted:yospos: superflue turpis et maxime inefficax
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FMguru posted:superflue turpis et maxime inefficax 
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:my grandparents installed a central vacuum system in their vacation house and i love how funky it is. there are outlets throughout the place you plug the hose of the attachment into, which connects to a central vacuum tank in the garage. it's unnecessarily complicated and extremely ineffective my childhood home had one of those. I lost so many hot wheels cars down that god drat vacuum tube vacuuming was like dragging a fuckin fire hose around the house
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ive seen high end RVs with a tiny house vacuum setup just like those, and it's actually kinda smart
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I got to use one of those when I was doing contracted cleaning at a medical parts manufacturer in their clean rooms! it worked really well but yeah it was like hauling around a firehose but I wasn’t allowed to break poo poo that got in my way 
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FMguru posted:translate this into latin and it could be the yospos motto anyway, stealing this as my twitter bio: superflue complexus et maxime inefficax EIDE Van Hagar fucked around with this message at 17:32 on Apr 20, 2022 |
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Tankakern posted:old ones works better than new ones due to eu regulations, don't they? there were no limits before on how much wattage there could be, now there's a ceiling that everyone must adhere to we got a miele one that sounds like it uses some kind of inverter on the motor so it is plenty powerful and still pretty efficient too
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only person i know with a central vacuum also has a full set of air tools in their garage and an 3 foot diameter industrial extractor fan in the attic that can cycle all air in the house in a few minutes with the doors open. central vacuums are for that kind of person. it’s a valid choice that works well but it’s not really the easiest way to do simple jobs.
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the Honda Odyssey has an option for a trunk mounted vacuum cleaner and that owns
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my parents have a central vacuum in their house and its great. the sucker hole layout allows you to reach everything so it works well. they also have a big whole house fan and it too is great. a few years ago my dad added on a wood shop to their garage. he had a heat exchanger built into the exhaust system to maximize heating efficiency when using the exhaust in the winter. he doesnt have a set of air tools yet. i do have a buddy who works on cars that has a whole set of air tools and a big central compressor in his garage with overhead lines and stuff and oh man is that nice Wild EEPROM posted:the Honda Odyssey has an option for a trunk mounted vacuum cleaner and that owns i remember seeing the ad for that when they first started doing it and thinking "thats so brilliant and obvious, how was this not already in every minivan?"
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:my grandparents installed a central vacuum system in their vacation house and i love how funky it is. there are outlets throughout the place you plug the hose of the attachment into, which connects to a central vacuum tank in the garage. it's unnecessarily complicated and extremely ineffective my parents' house had this when i was a kid and the only times anyone ever interacted with it were when i wanted to feed it dust bunnies out of my hand like a horse to this day i still don't know where it sent everything
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Music Theory posted:my parents' house had this when i was a kid and the only times anyone ever interacted with it were when i wanted to feed it dust bunnies out of my hand like a horse
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mystes posted:To the mini black hole in the basement obviously. They work great unless you feed them to much and they swallow the planet. Yeah, it's actually pretty important that you do not attach the hose from one port to another port 
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