And now I'm reminded I have two of these to repair.

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• Armand1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

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• cosmicpancake@sh.itjust.works ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Oh hell, that picture hit me in the gut. I have two of those exact things sitting in my closet and every time I think about fixing them I just want to cry. Whoever designed these clearly hated future owners.

  Parts are impossible to find, the screws strip in 0.3 seconds, and of course the cheap plastic decides to crumble right where it matters. I swear manufacturers do this on purpose so you buy a new one.

  I’ll probably procrastinate for a month, then tear one apart at 2 AM with a soldering iron and too much coffee. If it works, I pretend it was a planned restoration. If not, well, eBay scavenging spree it is.

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Parts?

    Anyhow, they have a 10 year lifetime. You can’t repair it.

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  • spicehoarder@lemmy.zip ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t these things run off of decaying isotopes? I don’t think you can fix that

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  • SGforce@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Don’t know what it’s like where you live but around here if they are old enough to fall apart they aren’t to code anyway. They need replacing like every two years, I think.

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  • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Our floor plan + regulations made for a stupid setup. All three bedrooms and hallway require an alarm. All 4 are within 8’ of each other.

    And there isn’t one in the kitchen!

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    • lovely_reader@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Afaik, it’s not recommended to have them in kitchens, because harmless culinary mistakes can set them off so people end up disabling them in annoyance. You have to have one in a common area on every floor, but ideally not the kitchen.

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• Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Bruh i cant afford to live through my house burning down or through my fire alarm waking me when ive got work. Plus i smoke a lot of weed so im like immune to smoke or something

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