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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.
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the airblade dryers are also noisy as hell and i hate it. almost as bad as the XLR8R or whatever those ones that sound like an F-16 are called. why do public bathrooms have to be so loving loud
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Mar 17, 2022 20:59
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Sagebrush posted:the airblade dryers are also noisy as hell and i hate it. almost as bad as the XLR8R or whatever those ones that sound like an F-16 are called. why do public bathrooms have to be so loving loud a few years ago when my brother was in college and was living in the dorms i visited him. the dorm bathrooms were floor-to-ceiling tile and had xlr8r dryers. it was so loud when they ran that it was physically painful.
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Mar 17, 2022 21:23
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my work put in those dyson faucet airblades back when covid first started, and they're awful and everytime i've tried to use it i just got sprinkles of water all over my shirt
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Mar 17, 2022 21:58
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those airblade things that require you to put your hands into the slot are the worst. it's like a sadistic challenge to not touch the dirty sides while your hands are being blown to and fro
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Mar 17, 2022 23:35
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Agile Vector posted:*sir james slowly shakes his head as he leaves the bank holding his "This Car Will Really Suck!" pitch deck* lol
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AlbertFlasher posted:I thought dyson moved to singapore after brexit? dyson the person is a huge brexiteer so that'd be super ironic if they did that
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Mar 18, 2022 04:58
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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. My family was using a 1963 canister electrolux in 2002. It could be awhile.
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Mar 18, 2022 09:18
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klite codec pack
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Mar 18, 2022 12:05
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SYSV Fanfic posted:My family was using a 1963 canister electrolux in 2002. It could be awhile. oh man that brings back memories. my mom had an Electrolux that she bought from a door to door salesman in the early 70’s. the kind where the vacuum is a big tube on wheels that you drag behind the power head. she used that well into the 90’s, feeding it spare parts and subjecting my dad to having to clean and repair it. I’m pretty sure you could throw it off a skyscraper and it would be fine. as for how well it actually vacuumed, I think that was less impressive.  that image brings back a lot of memories, weirdly
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Mar 18, 2022 12:09
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Captain Foo posted:klite codec pack cccp or BUST 
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Mar 18, 2022 13:34
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Jim Silly-Balls posted:oh man that brings back memories. my mom had an Electrolux that she bought from a door to door salesman in the early 70’s. the kind where the vacuum is a big tube on wheels that you drag behind the power head. my mom had this one from 1982-2009. lot of memories using it as a kid!
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Mar 18, 2022 14:24
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We got a Dyson wand vacuum for, I don't know, some pretty large percentage discount. I can't imagine paying like $700 for one of these things, but it certainly beats the poo poo of a $50 dustbuster.
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Mar 18, 2022 15:31
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tk posted:We got a Dyson wand vacuum for, I don't know, some pretty large percentage discount. I can't imagine paying like $700 for one of these things, but it certainly beats the poo poo of a $50 dustbuster. You paid list price, they just couched it as a "great sale" to engage your lizard brain.
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Mar 18, 2022 16:35
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Volmarias posted:You paid list price, they just couched it as a "great sale" to engage your lizard brain. I wish I did. I tried to buy one for my parents because I think they would really like it but even the blowout discounts don't come close Maybe it's hot.
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Mar 18, 2022 16:39
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2EMGmv0FqM
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Mar 18, 2022 16:54
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I'll give them credit, the newer Dyson handheld vacuums are pretty good and the design is better than other ones I've used e.g. the end pivots better, cleaning the unit is easier etc. I had one of the first gen ones though and it was a PoS that the battery stopped holding any charge on after about 12 months
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Mar 18, 2022 17:36
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Mr.Radar posted:remember when dyson tried to build an electric car and then gave up when they realized how hard it actually was? they realized they couldn’t get away with just putting a gasoline or diesel generator in a futuristic looking car with electric motors but would actually have to do work the generator + electric motor hybrid design can actually be really efficient (that’s how locomotives work), but it’s not an “electric car” in the popular consciousness, so they couldn’t use their “bladeless fan” trick to sell it and what else do they know?
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Mar 18, 2022 19:11
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Mr.Radar posted:a few years ago when my brother was in college and was living in the dorms i visited him. the dorm bathrooms were floor-to-ceiling tile and had xlr8r dryers. it was so loud when they ran that it was physically painful. when I use one of those my watch gives me a dB alert for possible hearing damage
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Mar 18, 2022 19:13
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eschaton posted:they realized they couldn’t get away with just putting a gasoline or diesel generator in a futuristic looking car with electric motors but would actually have to do work funny tech poo poo I just remembered: all the nerds who preordered volts lost their poo poo when gm announced that it had a direct drive mode instead of generator only, despite it being more efficient anyway locomotive needs are wildly different than passenger cars so generator drive sounds good but doesn’t really make sense compared to something like the prius planetary gearset but I won’t say anything more because i dont want to summon a certain ex auto engineer from the tesla thread
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Mar 18, 2022 23:17
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Trains need a lot of low-end torque, if you were relying on a friction clutch to get things moving from a standstill you would wear that out in very short order.
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Mar 18, 2022 23:31
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> funy tech poo poo u just remembered lindows
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Dvorak Mid 2000s a nerd in my upper level highschool comprutor class had to bring his keyboard in to type. I remember listening to him explain it the first time to the teacher and got really get interrogated over whether having to carry specialized input was worth the sick wpm gainz. Credit to teacher, he knew what Dvorak was, he just thought the kid was loving with him like how when we scheduled something with him in swatch time. ****Ripped back from portal in 2006*** Blergh, anyways I guess I don't type anymore. Predictive text basically got me covered.
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Mar 19, 2022 13:28
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N.Z.'s Champion posted:> funy tech poo poo u just remembered https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSdRTOh2jeA
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KirbyKhan posted:Dvorak nobody has ever used a dvorak keyboard for anything except writing giant blog posts about how they use a dvorak keyboard Sweevo fucked around with this message at 17:34 on Mar 19, 2022 |
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Mar 19, 2022 13:54
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i used dvorak a bunch in college i never actually typed anything on it, but i definitely did go into the keyboard settings and select dvorak layout on a whole bunch of lab machines
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Mar 19, 2022 16:30
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eschaton posted:they realized they couldn’t get away with just putting a gasoline or diesel generator in a futuristic looking car with electric motors but would actually have to do work ironically my friend that used to work for dyson wrote his masters thesis* on something involving hybrid cars, I think when I asked him about it he said that it was doomed because James Dyson wouldn't listen to anybody telling him how difficult it was actually going to be. some Big Musk energy right there. *he wrote like 25,000 words on it. It was entirely unreadable and he got a like 1% higher mark than me for writing about 4x more which he really did not like to be reminded of lmao
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Mar 19, 2022 17:09
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Your Master's thesis was only 6,000 words?
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Mar 19, 2022 17:19
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i like dyson hand driers and our little dyson dustbuster thing
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Mar 19, 2022 19:25
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discussion of adobe software in another thread reminded me of macromedia fireworks dreamweaver shockwave flash all lmao worthy in their own special way
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OSI networking
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X.400 mail
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X.500 directory services
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X.25 packet-switched networking V.35
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Mar 19, 2022 20:41
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no, it's macromedia
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Sagebrush posted:Your Master's thesis was only 6,000 words? you made me go and dig up the files and it was maybe 9k? the entire 4 person group project was 35k words total, so my friends must have been something like 30k solo then had 3 other people's work globbed onto it this was mech eng and the report was 50% of the grade weighting for the year, I was very heavy on pictures, his was literally all words, I pity the assessors that had to read that
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Mar 19, 2022 23:16
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Anyone remember how small monitors used to be? Like usually 10" visible.
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sometimes their listed dimensions included the bezel, making that 15” screen more like 12
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