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  • Exploitation.

    People in rich countries have stuff manufactured in countries with a lower living standard, less regulation, nor work safety, no unions, lower wages etc. Same goes for the raw materials all stuff is built out of. If you don’t have to care about anything, you can make everything so much cheaper. As long as this exploitative relationship between rich and poor countries exists, the rich will have access to cheap stuff that doesn’t need to be fixed.

    Repairing broken appliances and electronics has different dynamic though. You’re paying a trained professional in a rich country to work for you. That doesn’t come cheap. Even though the parts may be cheap, labor costs a lot. That’s the exact reason why everything is manufactured in poor countries where labor is cheap. See also: planned obsolescence

    We’ve been doing this for centuries already. It’s a tradition by now. Global inequality fueled the Dutch East India company, Made England rich etc. Oh, and American cotton plantations too. We’re just getting started with this can of worms.


  • I’ve used a bunch of HPs over the years. Some of them ProBook, mostly Elitebook. Either way, the keyboards were always awful. If you want to be 100% sure each key press registers, you have to press surprisingly hard.

    If you’ve always used Dell and Lenovo, this kind of thing sounds completely absurd. It’s something that would never even occur to you. Why would you even think about whether the key presses register with 100% reliability? Of course they do. You press the button, a letter appears. That’s all there’s to it, right?

    Wrong! HP thinks there should be an element of surprise if you type normally. Unless you hammer the keyboard like a wild animal, there’s no way to get to 100%. Even if you get the fanciest model, the keyboard still has this HP trademark suckiness.












  • With Linux related issues, it’s usually a good idea to include the name of the distro.

    For example: debian apt unmet dependencies

    or even: arch wiki nvidia

    When looking for information about a particular rock, add the word “mineral” in the search query. If you forget to add it, you’ll usually end up reading about some mystical and magical properties you can still probably include in your next D&D campaign. If you’re feeling extra technical, try adding mindat or webmineral

    Example: Chrysocolla mineral

    Technical: Chrysocolla webmineral





  • Here’s a more nuanced approach. Once this messages is posted, it’s public. during the same day, it will be copied to a bunch of servers across the fediverse. It’s easily available to everyone who cares to look for it. After a few decades, most copies of the message will be gone, but maybe one or two will still remain tucked away somewhere. It’s still technically public, but it’s getting a bit rare. That’s ok though, because nobody cares about 30 year old online ramblings written on some archaic social media that got replaced by the New Cool Thing.

    After a hundred years or so, it’s highly likely that almost every record of this conversation is permanently gone. Maybe there’s a data historian who has a personal copy of the entire fediverse. What if that one historian forgets that their Crystalline Omni-Relational Uni-Protonic Tachyon storage, containing the only copy, was in the pocket of the trousers that went into the washing machine? When they hear the spaceship keys clanging inside the washing machine, they stop the cycle, but by that point, the ‘original manuscript’ is already gone. All you have left are some references, summaries, interpretations, translations etc. Nobody knows what the original actually said, but historians just love to debate and speculate about it anyway.