Very recently, I was chatting with a coworker who is a dad, and he said, “I love my kids, but don’t do it”

Bit of a different vibe from that guy.

Assert dominance, do it again.

I know right? What a stud that guy is.

My partners car has a touch screen, but knobs dials and buttons for all the climate features.

The touch screen is just the infotainment stuff.

That’s about as far as I want it to go. I don’t need a large format display in my vehicle. I don’t want my speed, turn signal indicator, and climate controls on a massive display that takes up 1/3rd of the dash. Their car has a 8" or so, infotainment display… Great for Android auto/Apple carplay, with navigation so I can get my directions without having to meddle with my phone, or a clunky phone mount wobbling around.

But that’s where I draw the line. Just give me the fancy infotainment screen, leave everything else the way it is.

Interesting take.

Can I ask how long something must exist before we can love and appreciate it?

I still miss my old school flip phone, but mobile phones haven’t been a thing for half as long as cars so I guess I can’t be a technology lover?

You’re weird.

… I’M JUST SAYING.

It’s situational, but you’re not the only one.

I lived with my dad for many years because he slowly lost the ability to take care of himself. My brother and I were there to handle whatever he needed and since I was working full time, I’d cover bills when it was required, either because he forgot or because he was struggling.

We eventually made the decision to have him moved to a care facility where he could get the care he needed, and far better care than we could hope to provide. He’s passed on now, but it happens. That was a crazy time in my life. Now I live independently.

For the record, I’m over 40 now, and I’m the youngest of his children. He died a few years back at this point.

I’m hungry now.

IMO, there should be minimums set by government to make parts available for a set amount of time… Like they did with the automotive industry.

Maybe not to the same length, I think for vehicles it’s like 20-25 years that parts must be available, for phones, maybe like 6? Years?

It’s hard to compete when you’re basically a warehouse and your market is the literal population of the internet.

Yeah, microcenter, even if it’s the only computer/electronics store for 100 miles, can still only hold so much, and they only reach people in/around their city at most. It’s not like people are crossing state lines to get to a computer store… Unless you live on the border of your state, I suppose.

Amazon has, at the very least, dozens of warehouses across the country that can deliver whatever it is you want with remarkable efficiency because postal/parcel services have been systematically improving over the past 50+ years.

I’m not saying I’m a fan of Amazon, but bluntly, is it really surprising, in the slightest, that Amazon can out price everyone else?

I think I watched a summary of it by a YouTuber.

I’m presently in this loop, trying to take a break from work, by reading Lemmy.

Dunno how you got this out of my head, but… Does anyone know how to report something? I’m in this comic and I didn’t agree to be in it.

I don’t think that the otter minds being called thicc.

Who was the apology for exactly?

Usually I’m 6 with 2 happening often. Depending on what is happening, I will visit will 1 regularly.

The same reason that filament based incandescent bulbs burned out. Planned obsolescence.

There’s a very real conspiracy (not just a theory) about the “arms race” in light bulbs for long lasting bulbs. Eventually, they made bulbs that lasted so long that they stopped making money.

Lighting manufacturers intentionally made worse bulbs to simply improve profits. They realized that they were driving themselves out of business. Everyone in the light bulb industry agreed to stop development of even longer lasting bulbs, just so they could continue to move units and make money.

Also, with LEDs, the thing that burns out fastest isn’t the LEDs (there’s usually a dozen… ish, in an LED bulb)… It’s the electronics. The power needs to be converted from line power to something the LEDs can handle, which is usually DC. So there’s a full power supply in the bulb to convert AC to DC, with a certain voltage to power the LEDs.

Sometimes this conversation is simple, a full bridge rectifier with little more than a filtering capacitor, other times it’s very complex.

The power supply in the bulb is usually what fails first.

Okay, but fucking pages sounds like a good way to get papercuts in places I don’t want papercuts.

Didn’t some kid do particle enrichment in his shed with parts from smoke detectors?

I seem to recall that.

CONSUME

Only you…

Jeez.

Accurate, but jeez.

We doing cutlery now?

Alright. I’ve seen stranger stuff on Lemmy.

Proceed.