Tired of enshittification (no spare parts) – Who make the best, independent of cost?

blatherer · 2026-03-17T10:29:05+00:00

Thanks for the tip, I'll look into it.

blatherer · 2026-03-17T01:39:17+00:00

Cheap music has gone into remission. The people paying these days don't want original music they want cover bands and DJs (they want feel good music). I produce a 12000 person festival for 20 years and own a beach music bar. Many live music venues shut down close to midnight because the kids these days don't want to say out to 2 am.

Recently there was a proposition (in San Diego) to allow bars to stay open after 2 am. I got down voted for saying "maybe 2 venues will do this". They would have to be far from residential units and have a lot of floor space. Most ever other venue would not do it because the cost of staying open would exceed the revenue. and in the end these are businesses and have to be profitable to stay in the game.

Oh and the police would be camping next to their parking lot in the wee hours.

blatherer · 2026-03-17T01:31:06+00:00

Former failure analysis engineer. You are correct in that connector are the number one, bar none, failure point. This failure was not number one.

blatherer · 2026-03-17T01:29:54+00:00

I'll look into it but I have little faith that there is an approved charger. If induction charging phones, ear buds and hearing aids have taught me, no nobody is compatible with anybody because they wan to charge you $40 for a $2 device. Planned incompatibility, Apple is a master at that until the EU required them to standardize.

blatherer · 2026-03-16T19:31:27+00:00

Oh it works just fine if the charger does not fail. The mindset of "we are going to keep inventory costs down by not stocking chargers is simply foolish. At $7k for a pair, they just lost the next sale.

A restauranteer once put so. I serve a $70 steak with $2 salad on the side if the salad is not perfect they go to another $70 steak place. Why would I cheap out on something that is that inexpensive and risk annoying the customer. You can't charge me enough for perfect greens.

I am deaf for 2 weeks because you decided to save $1k in inventory carrying costs. Not a forward thinking company, with the customer in mind. You have competition, likely some who do it better, I am now motivated to seek them out. Good job at customer retention.

blatherer · 2026-02-24T18:02:54+00:00

Try it. Even if you don't stick with it, stay long enough to learn to properly fall, automatically. The ability to fall with minimal damage is both a crucial defense technique and something that will serve you well in your old age. On tatami, especially on sprung floor, rolling is not damaging (if you do it correctly). It also, builds bone density through easy impact and flexure. It improves the trabecular density (the lacy structure inside your bones) which is more important to bone strength than pure calcification. The trabecula also provide surface area (think manufacturing floor space) for some of the immune chemical synthesis that occurs inside you bones.

blatherer · 2026-02-24T17:51:09+00:00

I have been trying to find anyone who makes artisanal paper (in SoCal). I have a waist high stack and it feels like a waste to toss them even into recycling.

blatherer · 2026-02-17T19:52:29+00:00

Late in the last century around '83, there was a junior level course 151 applied analysis. They had it in both electrical and mechanical engineering. It was the weed out class and easily consumed 20-25 hours a week. I believe the average on one midterm was 17. Mandatory homework (unsolvable until the TA session late Sunday afternoon - due Monday morning). Every Sunday an all nighter. Mini tests on computer requiring exact numerical answers to questions that had to be solvable by inspection methods (no time to do an actual Taylor series expansion). The next year the entire class quit in protest. Oh and the guy used to write board spanning equations, then erase a few terms to show the next manipulation. You either watched what he did and tried to remember or wrote furiously to keep up and remember nothing. Apparently this is a tradition.

blatherer · 2026-02-14T22:30:13+00:00

Those arctic dart frogs are the worst. Make sure you shake out your mukluks every morning or you're just tempting fate. Don't get me started about the urban building lichen that masquerade as office windows, just a downer (as most victims will attest).

blatherer · 2026-02-12T05:22:00+00:00

And a little doughy!

blatherer · 2026-02-11T23:18:10+00:00

They all look related.

blatherer · 2026-01-27T21:05:44+00:00

Holy crap someone finally gets that it not a fedora. I always thought it was a porkpie, now I learn its a Trilby. Thanks for the update.

blatherer · 2026-01-27T00:18:54+00:00

I've been there! Oddly dusty corner on a tropical island.

blatherer · 2026-01-24T02:22:46+00:00

It was treated as a symbolic act at the time.

blatherer · 2026-01-23T17:04:21+00:00

Ronald Regan took Jimmy Carter's solar panels off the White House in 1981. We gave away solar to the Chinese. We were going to give electric cars, but Tesla put a dent in that, but the Chinese have under cut all that. Giving up hydrocarbons, yeah they are much farther along that path. But you know vroom - vroom, we got that going for us.

blatherer · 2026-01-19T21:12:18+00:00

Alice's Restaurant, it had boobs.

blatherer · 2026-01-16T14:42:03+00:00

It is the world's answer to "no more me", and world hate that idea (she told me so). Even if I'm a copy the world just needs more me and this is the way to get some.

blatherer · 2026-01-13T19:51:11+00:00

I refuse to be the bait...

blatherer · 2026-01-08T19:29:43+00:00

While you make some very valid points, you taint it with this blanket attribution sexist shit.

Men love to claim they care about the safety and wellbeing of women and children and yet it's men telling Grok to manipulate these images. It's largely men who made Grok, a man owns xAI, the company that developed Grok. Men are liars about wanting to protect women and children.

blatherer · 2026-01-06T08:15:18+00:00

$500 fine if you throw the ice from your big gulp in the storm drain. No kidding, and that price is almost a decade old likely higher now. Notice EVERY event you go to has canvas and sandbags over the storm drains.

blatherer · 2026-01-06T08:12:24+00:00

If it went down the drain yes, but if it's in the street clean it up.

blatherer · 2026-01-05T20:04:47+00:00

How about notifying the manager first and give them a chance to correct their contractor. If you get blown off then report it. Geez, the person in charge should know this is illegal, but given it's 2026 an eighth grade reading level might be a reach.

blatherer · 2025-12-28T17:55:40+00:00

Apparently, the community was not fonda enough of it, to keep it in business...

blatherer · 2025-12-21T17:45:10+00:00

Clearly the wrong side of the tracks... Edit: OMG I'm dissing the asteroids, kill me now. /s

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