Can’t do a bad job if you don’t even know what the job is! /s

I thought the invasion would end 80 days ago. Trump said so. 🤭🤡🤡🤡

It would be nice if people took the power of voting more seriously.

The satisfaction in doing that would have been more than enough to justify the work! LOL

At what point would the effort and expense be “too much”? LOL These parts are normally available for under $10 for the seal, bearing, clips, and metal post.

On the other hand, we have a shower faucet knob where this internal piece would always crack. We replaced that part many times with the official component, but I ended up 3d printing it, and it hasn’t broken once in at least the last 6 years!

We’ve had excellent results with ours. Admittedly, I also add a lot of homemade “trail mix” to our recipes, so they are more than plain bread loafs! But we also use it to make pizza dough at least once a week.

The fact that companies don’t even care bothers me more than not being able to fix these items myself! 😱

As much as I love baking and making bread by hand, we use the bread maker (two, actually) so often that the convenience factor alone saves us many, many hours a week and has a much lower energy cost compared to our oven.

To be honest, I’ve 3d printed parts for other things before, but I don’t think it would work here. Great idea, though!

This is a high-heat part that needs to be some kind of silicone/rubber. The seal itself is shaped (not just a round washer), but there are other metal parts that appear to have broken/deteriorated. I don’t actually think my seals are broken, but the “seal kits” you usually find have all the parts I’d want to replace.

LOL. We have a robot vacuum that self-empties into a larger bag, and we do empty that one many times over 😂

Don’t even get me started with vacuums! We have a Shark vacuum that was gifted to us. It works great, and I have no complaints… except for this one thing:

The hose had split one day, and having looked at a few videos on how to fix this common problem, I got to work.

Shark, with their engineers, made it so that the hose has a wire running through it, making it impossible to fix this very simple problem.

I call up their service, because the machine was still under warranty. They wanted me to VIDEO CALL showing the issue with the hose, then claimed that the hose was a consumable item and not covered under warranty! Like, WTF?? I argued with them, and they finally agreed to replace the hose with shipping at my expense.

Infuriating.

I do remember older vacuums being way more serviceable. My only real complaint about older vacs is that they tend to use disposable bags, which I hate (another consumable!). But when it comes time to replace this, I will be shopping around for the most repairable models.

Yeah, I’ve been far more conscious of whether the stuff I buy can be easily repaired or not, and it often makes or breaks my purchase decision.

I wish consumers had more resources into what parts might break on which product, so they can actively make better purchasing decisions.

Had I known this part could be treated like a consumable, I may have spent more on a better model that supports easier repairs.

Which reminds me, my expensive blender has a jar with a built-in blade. Eventually, the blade will need to be replaced (actually, it’s the bearings), but since you can’t disassemble it, you have to purchase an entirely new jar with the blade! So, I sourced out compatible jars that have removable blades that can be more easily serviced!

This is actually part of planned obsolescence, where it is difficult and costly to repair things even when parts are available by constant minor cosmetic tweaks dueing production.

For sure! We need stronger laws that prevent this. Lump it into some environmental protection mandate, and expedite it!

China just don’t give a fuck! 🍯🦡 🤭

Yes, I’m using the Intel® Wi-Fi 6E AX210 No vPro®. It’s been very stable, and highly performent (on Windows, at least). So far, no issues with Wifi on Fedora-based distros.

It’s the 11th Gen Framework 13 running:

• Intel® Core™ i5-1135G7, integrated Intel XE graphics chip
• Western Digital Black 770 2TB SSD
• 32gb ram (16GB x 2) Crucial DDR4-3200

From the look of it, I may just have really bad luck with Ubuntu and related distros.

I’ve been on Fedora for the last 24h, and it’s been incredibly stable. Even heavy multitasking with Boxes running two VMs in the background! haha

Someone below mentioned Aurora, Bazzite’s sister. I currently use Bluefin, which is another of Bazzite’s sisters, also on Framework,

I know nothing about these… but I just installed Aurora in Boxes to try, and damn, it’s nice. Maybe a little “too busy”, but it’s got everything I could ask for out of the box (no need for extension manager). I might replace Mint with Aurora on my MiniPC, but if it’s as unbreakable as they say, it may replace Fedora.

Right now, Fedora has still be very stable, but since I’m staring from scratch, I might as well get it right the first time. I’ll be experimenting more to see which I prefer.

Take the money and tell him to fuck off. He’s a con artist. Have him lose at his own game.

I bought it before the coup and threats to my country! 😂