magic box rule

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• Isoprenoid@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And each of them costs about the same as a deposit on a house.

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  • cam_i_am@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    And last just as long.

    The engineering department at my uni has a tensile strength testing machine which says “Made in the GDR” on it, a country that hasn’t existed for 40+ years.

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Image

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  • credo@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I too like toaster ovens.

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• SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I recall taking a date to the lab I was working in as a grad student and realizing after we got there that none of it is terribly impressive if you don’t know what any of it does. She was unimpressed despite my excitement about all of it.

  I later married a different woman who actually was excited about our lab things despite but being a scientist.

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  • ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Excitedly getting monologued to about niche things that are like magic to me is the best. Learning just enough about someone’s interest to use all the words wrong though is what really gets me going

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  • Allero@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You married the right one.

    Being excited about random things you admire is a sign of genuine and great love :)

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• Zerush@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Another one Image

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• jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And you shall never offend this boxes or else they WILL hold grudges against you.

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  • keepcarrot@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    My printer started it

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    • notthebees@reddthat.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Anything that’s an unholy combination of mechanics and electronics will end up in disaster

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• meep_launcher@lemm.ee ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Oh I recognize these! We’ve got:

  1. The 1978 super Nintendo 5 (alternate universe)

  2. Lockheed Martin Bread maker

  3. Jeff

  4. HP 2400 inkjet Uranium 235 enrichment centrifuge

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• fckreddit@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Also, these beige boxes used to be white.

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• MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  They all look like some 90ies computer device.

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  • Draconic_NEO@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The designs probably haven’t fundamentally changed all that much from their older versions.

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• Enkers@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This is a repost from a month or two ago… and it’s still funny the 2nd time. :)

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  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Which is a itself a repost from a year or two ago lol.

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