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Did you have to crack it, or is it user serviceable?

Yeah, me too. You got lucky, or I’ve been unlucky!

That is fantastic, thank you! It’s not so bad I considered replacing it - almost nothing short of complete failure or battery death will prompt me to buy a new one - but it’d be awesome to fix the noise issue.

I didn’t even think about looking for a fix. IME, they’re basically glued together, and I didn’t consider they’d have any accessible screws.

How often do you brush?

I guess ours last about 7 or 8 years before they start noticeably degrading. I certainly have to charge at least once a month, though.

Years and years ago, we started with Sonicare, and when that died I got an Oral-B. It was categorically worse, and my dentist even noticed. So I went back to Sonicare. My wife never switched.

Sonicare’s QC is very poor. My wife’s been lucky, but I went through two Airflosses in as many years before I stopped getting them; the first died within the warranty and I got an exchange; the second, just after the warrantee expired.

My current Sonicare is about 5 years old, and the battery is holding up, but about a year after I got it it developed a loose part in the head and it is super noisy; like, you can tell I’m using it from across the house. My wife’s is the same age and is almost silent, so I think it’s just a QC issue.

However, to stay in topic: the batteries in these are also not-self-serviceable. Is there an electric toothbrush whose battery is?

That might do it. Rather than accepting scores, accept “composition” checklists, and then generate a score from that. I think you’d still get astroturfing, but it might cut down on the AI stuff, and if anyone proves some account(s) are providing false information, you have a ban process.

I had this idea for a database, based on binging Ave back before he for political, built from quantifiable metrics. If you watch his old videos, he tears things down and tests and checks everything, like the molding process of the TPE and the glass content of the plastic frames. I figured there must be some set of quantifiably metrics you could measure on each item, from the casing, to the switches, to the motors, to the connection wire gauge. Then, you normalize across the measurable metrics for each category of product and get a score. I really wanted to do a collab with him; I’d be happy to do the software and internet parts, and wanted his opinions on what and how you could measure everything, and let the home gamers contribute data. I had no intention of monitizing it, but ultimately, I couldn’t find a way of contacting him except by joining Patron, and about that time he stopped making technical content and started expressing some really dumb opinions, for such a smart guy. Anyway, it never went anywhere - I liked his videos, but I’m not mechanically inclined and I couldn’t pull it off by myself.

What you’re talking about used to be provided by Consumer Reports, before the internet and them realizing they could make more money by paid promotions than subscriptions, and sold out.

I still like the idea of a database, either made from quantifiable metrics or customer input, but the issue I could never figure out was ballot stuffing. And, it’d take money and time to run, I don’t like web development and I wouldn’t do it for fun. But the real blocker is ballot stuffing - any content that’s user provided and has the ability to change sales will be abused by companies. It’d be nice to build something federated, but that would only worsen the stuffing issue; and now, with AI, Maytag will just pay a company to generate random positive content for their products and submit it through a bot net.

Gimme.

It’s got everything: ePaper, hardware keyboard… I’m not hugely fond of ESP32, but you can’t best the battery life on devices that use it. I have a BangleJS watch that’s ESP32-based with an ePaper display, and I get over a week between recharges.

Good points, but who knows? That’s why I’d like to see more discussion about the challenges. I get that this is essentially an ad, or a fluff piece if you’d rather. And I don’t begrudge them that - it’s a compelling story! I’d simply like to see them addressing some of the potential issues, any longevity testing, stuff like that.

Like, rather than being negative about it, I’m excited enough to be interested in the next level, which is maintenance and TCO. I mean, ideally, we’re building these and living in them for multiple generations, right? There are houses in Germany that people have been living in continuously for longer than the USA has existed. How do these materials hold up over time?

This is such neat technology. Fuller’s ideas were revolutionary, and we can appreciate the pioneers - there are several Fuller domes across the world, including homes in CA - the materials science of this is exciting.

It’d be nice to see a discussion of the challenges, as well. Maintenance, and wear. Do the panels need to be replaced? What’s the repair process look like, inside and out? When the house gets hit by a storm of fist-sized hail, or when those 300MPH winds drive a 2x2 through the wall, what does the repair look like? If your kid knocks a hole in one of the interior panels, what does the repair look like?

How do they envision joining domes, or are living spaces constrained by the size of the dome? How will internal structures be anchored - or in the big, multi-room domes, will all the walls be free-standing? How much do those windows cost, compared to standard windows?

Traditional home owners have to deal with all of these questions; I love the vision and the style, and I don’t have to be sold on the benefits of Bucky Domes. I’d be interested in the TCO over 20 years.

I once looked at a Fuller dome house in California, built with wood, built back in the 70’s. It was wood-built, and the materials make a huge difference, but the repair costs to get it livable were similar to tearing it down and building a traditional house in its place. I’d want to know how these new materials hold up over time.

Of you’re American, odds are good you’re well on the way.

All of this, and disincentivizing repair over purchasing new product. They have buckets of those screens at a cost of a couple of dollars to the company, but of they jack the price up enough you’ll start thinking to yourself, “repairing this is going to cost almost as much as just getting a new one,” and thus you rationalize the purchase and the vendor sells more product.

It’s strategic pricing, and IMO it’s so unethical it should be illegal.

I looked through the article and didn’t see anything linking this to Democrats.What made you say that, that way?

And now, since the Republicans have seen how effective this is, we’ll never see an end to the electoral college. Not that the Democrats were particularly behind it, either, but it benefits Republicans more.

The popular vote does not matter. It has no effect and no consequences. So you can give up on that.

I didn’t say it’d have any practical consequence. It would, however, maybe keep alive the dying ember in my soul that there’s a tiny shed of hope for some future generation.

Boycotts have consequences

Do they? I’ve been boycotting Nestlé for about a decade now, and they seem to be utterly indifferent to the fact.

putting gas in their cars and feeding banks. It’s reckless. Then they wonder why republicans take power.

I… look I get your point, but at the risk of nitpicking, how are they supposed to not put gas in their car? Quit their jobs, or get fired because they won’t come in to work? Even if you live in a city, most in the US have barely serviceable public transportation systems, and companies are going hard-core rolling back WFH.

Recent example of boycotts working: McDonalds in Israel gave free meals to soldiers.

Has it stopped Israel’s invasion of Gaza yet? Heck, it’s even limited in effectiveness when whole countries join a boycott. Russia’s under sanctions, which is just a fancy word for country-level boycotts, and while it may have slowed them down, they still seem to be making steady progress. “Blood diamond” boycotts haven’t put Debeers out of business yet.

Boycotting is mostly a feel-good gesture, or, I’ll grant, “at least I can feel like I’m not contributing” moral superiority - which certainly has value.

You seem to think I’m anti-boycott, when I actually just think they only rarely move needles.

That’s not how gerrymandering works.

Gerrymandering affects state legislature, which translates directly into local laws that directly affect things that influence general elections - like voter intimidation laws, registration laws, mail-in voting laws, judicial and law enforcement elections, and countless legislation.

The inaction you advocate only supports Project 2025.

Uh huh. Boycotting’s going to reinstate Roe v Wade. You go ahead and message me an “I Told You So” when that happens.

Nope. I give up. I’ll vote, if we even have a next election, but at this point I’ve lost all hope for America. I have no doubt America will allow passing an amendment to allow Trump a third term. If he survives that, a fourth.

It’s not just Republican shenanigans and Gerrymandering. We’ll see what the popular vote comes out to be; maybe Kamala will have “won” that, but the fact that enough Americans were willing to make this even a close race has destroyed any faith I had left about the country. Either a vast swath of the American people didn’t understand Project 2025, or they agreed with it; both options are utterly demoralizing.

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No. Fucking. Shit.

The complete collapse of one of the three real legs of the US government. The president was not intended to be more than a figurehead, because the founding fathers thought the populous would lose their shit if they didn’t have “king.” What a terrible decision. The real triad were supposed to be the House, Senate, and Judiciary. Nobody’s surprised when there president goes off the rails, but losing the judiciary to radicals? That’s fucked. We’re fucked.

Yeah, I know my interpretation of what the founding fathers really intended doesn’t have much to back it up. Still, the Supreme Court now going against all previous courts and outright ignoring precident is really, really fucked up.

Never saw the plant before relocating to this part of the country, and now it’s one of my favorite plants. It’s hardy, easy, looks great, grows like the dickens but doesn’t spread like a weed. We had some landscaping done and accidentally split a couple of mature plants in moving things around, and now I can’t tell which were the split ones, and which survived whole - they all look great!

This year, I’m putting it everywhere. It can have the whole yard as far as I’m concerned.

Great picture!

I know everybody in this community knows what you mean, but I just want to say, coming across your post in unfiltered “world” mode, the phrase “design a large solar system” totally threw my brain out of gear.

Are they talking about a sci-fi role-playing game? Is this some astronomy jargon? What the heck am I reading?