I’ve learned that if it is just the top speed that is slow, it’s a replacement capacitor behind the light switch.

If all speeds are slow, it’s the whole fan to be replaced.

(We live in a warm place, and fans run 24/7 in some of our rooms, so we go through this process at least yearly for at least one of our fans)

Of what, a metric shit-ton?

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It was Flashforge Adventurer 3, and was $600 AUD, this was all pre COVID.

I had a 20+ Yr old car with a key fob that had broken, so it would stay on a key ring and wouldn’t stay closed.

Wreckers wanted $700 for a new key fob case as I’d have to buy the whole second hand keyless entry system.

A small 3d printer cost $650.

I bought the printer, then designed and printed my own key fob case, including replacing the worn out rubber buttons with some harvested out of an old kitchen timer.

No one was ever impressed or interested with the whole thing, so I figured this meets the criteria for inclusion here…

My step kids have never known me without a beard. They saw a photo of me clean shaven from about a year before I met their mother, and my stepdaughter looked at me, then the photo and said “Ew… Gross… Never shave your beard…”

Gotta love the honesty!!!

(I just choose to remember how much my stepdaughter LOVES my beard!! 🤪)

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Depends on the price. I was able to return a 13 month old iPhone when apple announced the CSAM scanning (that they eventually abandoned) - I got a full refund. The phone costs enough that ACL considers it should operate for at least 2 years.

At least in Australia, Consumer Law means you have grounds to walk the TV back for a full refund.

I’ve used the 3x multiplier for staff planning at services companies since the early 2000s.

Perhaps there are regional differences, but they’ve rung true for planning billable rates of return at every services company I’ve worked at in the last 20 years here in AU.

I realise that the services aspect isn’t relevant, but having the sum of indirect staff costs equivalent to staff salary cost when office space is involved isn’t a massive stretch in my experience. (Indirect costs would include office rent, utilities, infrastructure and a share of shared functions such as IT, HR, facilities etc…)

When running a business, you need to budget 3x salary for actual TCO of a staff member:

1x covers their direct salary 2x covers retirement fund, electricity, office space, and infrastructure items unlike server and laptops for corporate use etc.

The 3x multiplier is for when you’re a services company, and that represents a possibly profit margin.

So for signal, your $380k becomes $190k which in my experience is average for a US tech sw dev at a mid to early senior level.

I donate to signal monthly and I have no problems with the costs they’re posting. I work in SV tech and I’ve seen 20x worse numbers.

Australia’s Basic Online Safety Expectations made it required by law:

“If the service uses encryption, the provider of the service will take reasonable steps to develop and implement processes to detect and address material or activity on the service that is or may be unlawful or harmful”

Source: https://www.legislation.gov.au/Details/F2022L00062/Html/Text#_Toc93478766 section 8

For those interested in privacy respecting android, check out GrapheneOS on Pixel: De-googled android that is strong on security and rips google out of your device… Ive been using it for two years and won’t go back. ::: spoiler Title

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FWIW GrapheneOS patched these storage bugs before they made it to their A14 beta.

5.11 strykes win hands down for me on every single metric. They have become my staple. I literally have pairs in every colour and even have the shorts.

I get concerned when companies like Apple uses the “We won’t break our application for demands of one country” argument as Australia, France, the USA and possibly other countries are either planning or already have similar legislation.

The right argument to have is the one that says “this is just plain wrong!”. That is a much tougher needle to thread though.

I’m investigating a scraper replacement for my leather man for times where an edged blade is not possible.

I’ve seen replacement blade blanks that look like they would work well.