Switzerland doesn’t have the same sheet weight Brazil has.

And it probably doesn’t wants to ruffle big US tech companies with so many having their big European HQs in Zurich.

I was partly lucky I guess. My first Dyson never broke but was losing sucking power despite cleaning the filters, I had a killer rebate on a new one so I sold the old one and got a new one.

The new one had a very silly design flaw where the vacuum head pivots on a tiny, crappy, little plastic flat ring held by a single screw. That broke but thankfully while under warranty and they quickly replaced the part. Recently the same exact part broke again but out of warranty. Considered replacing it but for such an old vacuum, the part was expensive (about $80) and out of stock so I pulled the trigger on putting some extra money in a newer, better-quality one instead.

I’m all for repairing stuff to extend their life but some things just aren’t worth sinking more money into them.

My experience is cheap Siemens/Bosch is not great. Si ignore entry price models even if you don’t need the features.

I’m slowly replacing my breaking Siemens stuff with Miele and so far it seems to be worth the premium without having to research each model.

I just replaced a Dyson vacuum with a Miele bagless and boy, it’s so much more powerfu, and seems better designed and more robust.

Also fuck Dyson for lobbying for Brexit and then bailed to Singapore.

Affordable GPUs is a thing of the past I’m afraid. Bubble or not I’m afraid they will never come down.

Can’t sell something they can easily steal and get away with it.

LLM/AI: also GPUs.

And many Cantons offer to subsidize part of the installation. With increasing energy prices I bet those ROI are going end up better than initially projected.

And and with the crappy FLIR resolution announced, that buck will look nothing like in the marketing material.

Hell yes, it’s hard to go wrong Trent Reznor on the soundtrack.

An eReader. Once you have one you can read for entertainment and knowledge anywhere from free to any budget.

Yes, you can read with pretty much anything with a screen but a nice dedicated device will encourage focused reading.

Yep, “The Internet” is just Facebook for them.

The Republican party was Lincoln’s party. Look at were they stand now.

Human Target until they messed up the intro (and everything else) with the disastrous season 2.

The music and art were top-tier and set me up for adventure.

For those who haven’t seen it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_xFMyhBYx8.

All the guns in Elysium where amazing.

Even the rusty old AK was converted to an awesome gun that shoots even more awesome cartridges.

I’m partial to the sub-orbital MANPAD Copley pulls out to shoot down one of the refugee shuttles.

In my experience, much better than Siemens/Bosch.

Unlike those, Miele doesn’t seem to have entry-level-priced equipment that just sucks in term of quality.

Failing his last one might help with the first one. But don’t.

“World peace, end hunger, fix climate change”

I wonder if I still have the CD-ROM for this somewhere in a box.

Painfully upvotes

OP asked for unpopular opinions and you’ve delivered.

Upvoted you because of that and not because I agree with you (I strongly disagree as a matter of fact).