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> Capitalism is based on predation. Everyone is trying to steal what little money you have. Capitalism 101: Wealth is finite, the easiest…

Question about springs... So how firm/soft springs will be should be determined by a combination of wire gauge and coil design? What impact…

Someone the other week was talking about some mesh system that dropped LAN ports if WAN was lost. (Just sounds like a super-shite design…

> Hills TV Rental charges for " free to air" is criminal LDougie 05 8 hours 55 min ago This company has no morals and are common thief's…

> Your experience of bed in a box is similar to many customers that I speak to in the shop. I've pulled the sleeping duck apart, it suffers…

I have a Sleeping Duck, and I've ended up concluding that it's... okay but not great. We ordered it because we were arriving to Oz and…

Pretty much agreed with the sentiments there. I've been out of the country for decades, and I've come back to discover that tertiary…

> and now this galah. Don't besmirch galahs.

I've probably seen more of Asia than 95% of people on this forum. The only countries comparable on a development scale to Australia would…

> So Tesla turns on air-con to cool the inside but what happens when it’s 45C + outside? Does Tesla have a self-activating fire…

Personally, I would use this.... *nowhere.* Powerstrip made by a company that doesn't even bother coming up with a proper name, *connected…

I deleted the comment- OP specifies that it's a SATA disk and not SAS. Still, probably worth confirming.

Do you pop these things open and look at the internals?

Why use a degradable battery instead of just charging via the 12V cigarette lighter socket?

I rather suspect that iodine buffered salt is to stave of problems in people with really, really poor diets. What do we have to worry about…

> There're batteries in cars now more than ever EV battery packs are very carefully managed by sophisticated algorithms that avoid full…

Bork bork bork!

It was OOS, then went back in stock 10 minutes later. Weird.

> Turns out that when my internet drops out, my modem/router stops working as a switch. Just get a generic D-Link or Netgear or TPLink $15…

Perhaps you haven't realised this, but even the fairly basic Japanese style ones have multiple levels of pressure control. Not really sure…

Yeah, that's the problem though. We don't have taps in the right spot, and we're not going to run hoses and electrical extension cords…

There's a poster here called... uh... smoothcactus(?) who has done some teardowns and recommendations.

The Japanese toilets are bloody amazing- we had one overseas and going back to only paper is like entering the Dark Ages where people used…

Anker has been well regarded... practically forever. Have not come across reports of widespread issues. Main problem here is they cost a…

> Lunix just generally blows chunks. Linux is best left to servers and other important infrastructure. You don't think this is…

Windows or MacOS comes preinstalled on any computer that is bought, so why on earth would any normal, non-enthusiast geek spend a hour…

You might want to test where the bottleneck is then. I doubt it's in the 1Gb ethernet connection. This is also especially relevant to…

You can take selfies with an iPhone. Isn't that what everyone wants?