• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
    91·
    2 hours ago

    As someone with a set of the common tools, I hate how everything comes with shitty tools, just adding more weight and waste. Like even fucking replacement batteries for console controllers came with a little screwdriver.

    And I bet it’s all because of those shitty customers that complain about stupid shit like “I don’t have the correct tools to use this thing I ordered” and enabling managers that bend over backwards instead of just saying “go to your hardware store and buy a fucking tool” or “look in a mirror” and hanging up on them.

    Like how do you even function as a competent adult without some basic tools? Do you just accept that this door with a loose hinge is a pain to close? That this knob or handle just wobbles? That the handle on that shitty pot or pan might just come off as you try to lift the boiling water or even hotter oil inside it, or are pots and pans just too complicated in the first place?

    Or is that why people have so many financial issues because the moment something needs some maintenance, it’s time to call someone or toss it into the trash and buy a new one?

  • BillyClark@piefed.socialEnglish
    12·
    5 hours ago

    The Japanese says “plus driver”, which is a better name than “phillips head screwdriver” imo.

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      2·
      37 minutes ago

      Hell, we call it something like “star head screwdriver” and still everyone knows what it means (no, don’t bring up more than 4 apexes (apices)). Imagine moving to a random country and they recommend you to buy an Intel layout keyboard or a Sony audio socket.

      • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        9·
        3 hours ago

        Apparently not since 2008, when JIS B 1012 was replaced with ISO 7864, which specifies a more universal cross-head screw drive designed to function well with both Phillips and JIS drivers, alongside a move away from cross-head screws in favor of ISO flavored metric Allen cap screws or Torx bolts.

        Then there’s Pozidriv, because Europe had the exact same idea as the Japanese: “Let’s create our own, better Phillips that won’t work with Phillips drivers. I’m smart and am helping.” Technically better for all the same reasons Torx is, while being easily confused for Phillips.

        Meanwhile, Canada’s had it solved from the beginning with the Robertson drive. “Hey ya hosers, just make yer screwdriver square on the end dere. It’s like poutine, it’s simple and yet pretty good, eh?”

  • J92@lemmy.world
    29·
    7 hours ago

    I’d cut the diagram out and mount it in a frame alongside the tool. It’s excellent.

    I went to a friend’s house where her great auntie had mounted a clothes peg in a frame because the orientation of the spring over the wooden arm was the opposite to any she had seen before. And I’m clearly still thinking about it now, some 15 years later.

  • Sundray@lemmus.orgEnglish
    77·
    11 hours ago

    I feel confident about the quality of the construction of the piece of furniture this was sent with.

      • D_C@sh.itjust.works
        7·
        7 hours ago

        Then it doesn’t need much strength. Just duct tape some rope to the buildings or trees, or whatever, and zip them straight over.

        • jaybone@lemmy.zipEnglish
          5·
          7 hours ago

          I thought they said clothes line. Like how else are you going to dry out your babies? You monsters put them in the machine or something?

    • Rhaedas@fedia.io
      64·
      9 hours ago

      Most likely, the tools are manufactured by a third party and just dumped into the mix, so it’s not as direct a problem as it seems.