Every time. What really frustrates me is the way some people are like, "Just don't have it. It's fine."

Um...NO.

I feel the need to come back to physical supports: CDs, MiniDiscs, Cassettes, Vynils... Lately I bought a 2000ish compact stereo (used of course) with a tape deck and a CD reader... When it breaks I will try to fix it or buy another one, I'm tired of the newer, low quality equipments and of the digital crap they want us to buy every day.

I want to touch, I want to smell, I want to look at the stuff I buy without connecting to the Internet.

I go through this ordeal every time I buy a new phone, and then it usually takes me about 2x the intended lifespan of the new phone for me to forget about it and so be able to do it again when I have to.

(And headphones. My current ones are literally held together with tape at the moment because I can't find any replacements that are in my budget and that I don't dislike too much (for not being the headphones I currently have) to buy.)

Hell, it's a major contributor to why I learned to make my own clothes and tried to learn to make my own furniture (turns out that power tools are expensive and timber is also expensive and takes up a ton of space, who knew).

Sometimes.

There is often something, which is made by someone else, but still okay.

It does feel like a struggle, though. Like there's a force trying to keep usable, decent-quality items away from me.

No profit in good 99% of the time sadly:(

Same goes for fast food. Wow is it worse today than it used to be:(

Socks!

The ones on the right are old stock, 83% cotton/9% polyester. New stock on the left,
28% cotton/68% polyester. And despite what the label says, the lower-quality ones were actually more expensive (I think $14).

Naturally, I bought as many pairs of the old stock as I could afford.

One of my most favorited and repeated toots.

https://mastodon.online/@pseudonym/111707618140723432

You are singing my song.

Hard agree.

Pseudo Nym

2024-01-06 06:36:21

My million dollar idea I want someone to steal and do, so I can be a customer.

"Dumb Stuff" we sell electronic appliances that aren't Internet connected. That's all.

That's it. That's the pitch. I would buy the <bleep> out of this company if their electronic gadgets were even half way decent, and repairable.

Electronic, no wifi, regular screws to open it up. That's it. Do those three things, and you can be sold by this store.

I will pay this business to curate and find these devices for me.

In the elder days of art
Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part
For the Gods see everywhere.

From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Just when did he write this?

Thanks . . . Crowdstrike?

That feels weird to say. 😂

also i love the fact that kernel would be closed

i year i say that closing access isn’t always bad (as long as secure alternatives to do the work is proposed)