Bluewing
@Bluewing@lemmy.world
- Comment on Start-up idea 18 hours ago:
Simple hand tools like screwdrivers, pliers, a few small wrenches and sockets are dirt cheap. You don’t need to buy them off the SnapOn or MAC truck. In US, a store like Harbor Freight will have all the cheap tools you need for this. The most expensive tool you would find handy at times is a multimeter. Again, you don’t need a $1000 Fluke either. But, you don’t need one often. Nor do you need to buy all those tools at once either. Particularly if you start building your toolbag BEFORE you need it. It’s very likely you would burn your house down, (unless you are totally incompetent and really try hard), because you replaced a drive belt or pump seal. The control boards are low voltage and you should be smart enough to unplug any electrical device before working on it. And unless you tell the insurance company exactly what you did, they don’t know.
If you had bothered to read, I did straight up say that a refrigerator is impossible to repair due to how they are built. But you are still going to wait a day or two before your get a new one delivered.
Yes it sucks to not have a washer or dryer for a week or two, but while inconvenient perhaps, laundromats do exist. And a couple of trips to one while maybe waiting for parts is still a whole lot less cash money than the cost of a new washer or dryer up front.
I’ve only had one stove that didn’t last 20 years, (they are amazingly reliable and long lasting). I replaced it after 5 years because of a poorly designed circuit board, I replaced 3 of them at $175 each. But if you do, you probably already own some kind counter top cooking device or two. Like an electric frying pan, air fryer, slow cooker, toaster oven. or microwave.
I’m not particularly sorry you got your feelings hurt because you or anyone else got called out, if the shoe fits, wear it. So stop your whinging and trying to find ways to justify your laziness. It IS all on you to make the decision to repair or buy. But, don’t ever say that a lot of what you own can’t be repaired. That’s just not true.
- Comment on Start-up idea 1 day ago:
Most home appliances can be repaired even yet today. They all still work on the same principles that they did 60 years ago. Sure, the mechanical timers, switches and simple single phase motors have been replaced with solid state control boards, touch switches, and 3 phase motors, but those are also simpler to replace, if a bit harder to diagnose. The parts are a mere goggle away and for sale to even to the likes of me. About the only ‘impossible’ to repair at home appliance is your refrigerator. And that’s because of the sealed nature of the cooling system.
The biggest issue isn’t that they can’t be repaired, but rather you can’t be bothered to. You would rather spend $1000+ to get a new washing machine delivered to your house than spend $500 to fix the old one. You might consider fixing the old one if it would only cost $50 total and if the pump wasn’t $300+ labor and a $100 just to get a repairman to knock on your door. Plus the probable wait for a week or two to get the part. And you sure as hell ain’t going to get your fingers dirty or your knuckles skinned to do it yourself.
I’m still shaving with the same Gillette Slim Adjustable razor I learned to shave with as a youngster. It cost me about $10 in the early 1970s. The blades still only cost me about 15 cents per blade. I’ve had that razor for longer than I’ve been married to my wife of 40 years. I doubt few of you here would be able to make that kind of commitment to a simple razor, let alone a dishwasher.
- Comment on Veganuary 2 days ago:
you can’t outrun your fork
Amen to that!
- Comment on Veganuary 2 days ago:
So, let me get this straight. It’s less about your dietary regime and more about getting up off your ass and getting out and burning off the calories you consume?
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 3 days ago:
We wear shoes/slippers in the house. For 2 reasons
I have never been able to teach any of the dogs I’ve had to take their shoes off when they come in the house. So the floor is getting dirty anyway even as we speak. Sweeping and vacuuming happens more than once a week.
When you live in a place where the temperatures are below freezing for 6 months out of the year, your house cold soaks. So the floor is most likely going to feel uncomfortably cooler than people who live in a more temperate climate experience. And it doesn’t matter how well insulated or sealed your house is, it will cold soak. Slippers/shoes for the win.
- Comment on Naughty birds 1 week ago:
Everyone just wants to get fucked up.
- Comment on HD 137010 b 1 week ago:
There are a few speculative ideas on faster than light travel. Such as worm holes, quantum tunneling, and super fluid vacuum theories.
Are they real in the sense that we can know how they can work today? Nope. But lots of ideas we take for granted today were “impossible” not that long ago. The fact that real physicists are even thinking about those possibilities could lead to something in the future.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 1 week ago:
With asbestos, one has to wonder if there was just no good substitute for some of it’s properties. While it’s very rare to see used these days, there are still some careful applications for it. Lead is the same way. Lead solder and even lead pipes was commonly used up until a relatively short time ago for water supplies.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 1 week ago:
Then they didn’t much care I guess. Which was worse than not knowing.
- Comment on Ciiiiircle of liiiife 1 week ago:
But not lead…
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 2 weeks ago:
French cooking is cheap peasant foods with lipstick applied and loads of makeup to try and cover up that fact.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 2 weeks ago:
In the very early days of the colonial Americas, indentured servants along the eastern seaboard would sometimes go on strike to protest all the lobster they were fed because it was abundant and very cheap.
So yes, people get tired of the same old, same old foods every day.
- Comment on in all fairness italian cuisine is a relatively recent invention 2 weeks ago:
Nope. Biscuits and gravy is the very best breakfast. A pair of fresh handmade biscuits hot out of the oven and smothered in a white gravy with bits of spicy pork sausages and loads of black pepper for bite. A meal fit to fight whatever the day throws at you. Although fried chicken and waffles is a fine substitute. And smoked ribs, brisket, or pork butt cooked low and slow and infused with hours of hardwood smoke might be perfection itself. If you have the desire, your patience will be rewarded with meats that are unrivaled in this world.
But, like everything else in this world, cuisines are built upon whatever scraps of food that were handy and flavored with whatever seasonings that could be bought or scrounged. Local cuisines died when the first trader brought home something new to eat. It’s all just a mish-mash of ideas and methods now. And good food is as easy to find as bad food is.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
Because you guys don’t have trees…
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
There is a tremendous amount of inner peace knowing that your environment can reach out and kill you if it chooses to and you are unlucky.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
That’s Wisconsin… FTP! (If you know you know)
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
Yes. It pulls the surface heat out faster. But, the lakes have been frozen over for weeks now, (18" on the lake I live next to-- we are driving pickup trucks on it to go ice fishing).
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
The trees don’t “explode” but young spindly trees can shatter if the conditions are just right, (and they are not right now). It’s very rare to have happen.
Source: I live in northern Minnesota. And I live closer to Winnipeg than the Twin cities.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
At these temperatures, it’s best to keep your ass and your pet’s asses inside and pray the furnace don’t quit.
- Comment on Exploding 🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳🌲🌴🌳 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a common thing. And they don’t “explode” as much as shatter. It does require enough sap to be up in the tree trunks too. And our trees are too smart to let that happen for the most part. But it can and does happen sometimes to thin spindly young trees.
It’s been pretty cold up here in far northern Minnesota since last Wednesday. With morning temps at -25F, -30F, -30F and -35F this morning. The high yesterday was -15F and a high of -5F today. It’s not the very low temps that bother anyone up here, it’s the windchill that will kill you. Yesterday, the wind chills were running -35F to -60F. Which can cause frostbite to exposed skin in 5 minutes or less and possibly kill you very quickly.
On the upside, at these temps large amounts of snowfall are almost impossible. So I won’t need to start a tractor and plow the mile and a half to the nearest plowed road.
- Comment on Brand new bag 3 weeks ago:
As it was told to me when I was young, “The more things you need to carry everyday, the less important you are. The less you need to carry everyday, the more important you are.”
Sadly, there is a kernel of truth there.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure. It’s a method of cooking meat in it’s own juices. So he might be trying to refer to the meatballs?
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
Milk and butter is placed in the back of the store to increase the chances you will buy something as you walk by. Every grocery store does this.
- Comment on What a great idea 3 weeks ago:
It’s a cooking method
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 weeks ago:
They used to make 'torpedo" style bras back in the 1960’s. They so pointy they could poke and eye out…
- Comment on Heave-ho! 4 weeks ago:
It’s all just an engineering problem. It takes a lot more to support a heavy load than a light load…
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 4 weeks ago:
Combines ain’t that complex. But they are fussy to run. Growing up on a farm you learn to fix them at a pretty young age. I’ve even owned one myself, a well used Case I bought from an Uncle. I can close my eyes and "see’ every stinking moving part on any of the combines we owned. And I can still remember how access the parts and fix them.
Personally, I hate balers far more.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 4 weeks ago:
More like a failure as a sun. We should all point and laugh at Jupiter.
- Comment on Sad Ganymede noises 4 weeks ago:
Every voice vote I’ve ever had the honor of participating in, Aye is the word we used. As in “All in favor say Aye. All against say Nay”
Yea, I can’t say that “yea” or “yeah” is a hill worth dying on these days. So yeah…That’s how I see it. (Anybody see my Oxford comma? I had it here somewhere)
- Comment on The shrinkflation 5 weeks ago:
Good. Smaller portions are what many need these days. And the high price of fast food is a great incentive to eat at home.