Dumb things being crowdfunded.
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@scarlet_manuka your scheme actually worked, even if it was a bit inconvenient.
I remember back when I had cell phones that had a charging cradle that would also charge an extra battery. Those were super convenient.
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@scarlet_manuka said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
It worked reasonably well
Y'all obviously didn't have iPhones...
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@polygeekery When I eventually got my first mobile phone, I had planned to get an extra battery for it and do the "charge one, use one" thing. But the salespeople kindly explained to me that these days the battery could be charged in-place in only a few hours, so it wasn't necessary any more.
There was also some confusion the first time I bought an MP3 player with an integrated battery; I'd previously only used ones that took AA or AAA batteries, so when I asked about what batteries it took and how many, the salesperson took a moment to work out what I was talking about. And then it took me a moment to understand that I didn't have to replace the batteries any more. Apparently technology feels free to move on without notifying me :)
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@tsaukpaetra The reason we all have the same model phone is that I looked up the cheapest decent phone that would do what we need and told the kids "this is what I'm getting for you, if you want something better you can pay for it yourself". Thanks to the progress of time it was a step up from what they'd been using before so I didn't have any complaints.
But yes, that selection process pretty much ruled out iPhones from the beginning :)
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@scarlet_manuka said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
When I eventually got my first mobile phone, I had planned to get an extra battery for it and do the "charge one, use one" thing. But the salespeople kindly explained to me that these days the battery could be charged in-place in only a few hours, so it wasn't necessary any more.
I was thinking of the Nextel company phones I had back in the day. The early ones were pretty battery hungry. You had to charge every chance you had. Get back in your truck, put the phone on the charger.
Those were the ones where it was super handy to have a second battery. It gave you a fighting chance of making it through the day.
Those phones were also so big and heavy you could club a puma to death with them if attacked.
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@polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
She has killed the campaign and is trying to scrub her name from the internet.
https://www.catclark.co/bio-contact
Plus bogus copyright strikes against critical YouTube videos. Cat Clark is trying very hard to disassociate from BatBump.
This kind of crap should ruin your reputation, it was either out-and-out fraud or the kind of staggering incompetence that even two seconds of research on Google would have avoided.Edit: At least that ridiculous Batterizer thing actually existed even though it was just a boost-converter and impractical.
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@polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
She has killed the campaign and is trying to scrub her name from the internet.
https://www.catclark.co/bio-contact
It even mentioned blockchain. How could this not be a fraud!
I probably would of thrown a couple dollars at this if I got shares in the company. Everyone and their dog appears to be throwing money at blockchain nonsense at the moment. Might of got a cut VC monies!
On a side note could we patent this concept?
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@polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I remember back when I had cell phones that had a charging cradle that would also charge an extra battery.
I remember when a charged cell phone would last a week
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@timebandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I remember when a charged cell phone would last a week
Me too, when I carried a Blackberry. :maple_syrup:
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@polygeekery
Always helps battery life when you can't actually do anything on the phone.
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@timebandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I remember back when I had cell phones that had a charging cradle that would also charge an extra battery.
I remember when a charged cell phone would last a week
Mine would last probably more than that, if I used it like I used my phone in the era where it lasted a week.
But I don't and it doesn't.
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@timebandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I remember back when I had cell phones that had a charging cradle that would also charge an extra battery.
I remember when a charged cell phone would last a week
My phone is random. Either I can go 2 - 3 days per charge, or it starts at 100% and is dead by noon despite me not using it for anything.
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@mott555 said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
My phone is random. Either I can go 2 - 3 days per charge, or it starts at 100% and is dead by noon despite me not using it for anything.
I'd like to think this is A/B testing for something. :P For what, who knows.
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@cursorkeys said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Plus bogus copyright strikes against critical YouTube videos.
Privacy complaints, not copyright. And apparently privacy complaints, even if upheld, don't count as strikes.
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@tsaukpaetra said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@timebandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I remember back when I had cell phones that had a charging cradle that would also charge an extra battery.
I remember when a charged cell phone would last a week
Mine would last probably more than that, if I used it like I used my phone in the era where it lasted a week.
But I don't and it doesn't.
Mine might last that long if I didn't use it for TDWTF. But I do, and it doesn't. It does last all day, though, even when I don't keep it plugged in at work, and that's good enough.
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@dogsb said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Everyone and their dog appears to be throwing money at blockchain nonsense at the moment.
A couple of days ago the central bank here decided that they don't think cryptocurrencies are currencies or securities and therefore they won't be regulating them. I don't really understand why they shouldn't be though; it seems to me they quack like securities and walk like securities.
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@bulb Because they're entirely worthless.
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@bulb said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I don't really understand why they shouldn't be though; it seems to me they quack like securities and walk like securities.
Leaves the space open for regulating them as gambling. Which they also walk and quack exactly like…
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The stupid self-filling water bottle company is bankrupt:
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@Jaloopa said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Why I don't even...
The BladeKeeper® is a tool to keep razor blades sharp. We registered the trademark in 2013 for The BladeKeeper® as a manual razor blade sharpener. So, how do you manually sharpen the razor blade? You place one or two razors on top of The BladeKeeper®. That’s it. That’s the manual part. It keeps your blade sharp for you.
The BladeKeeper® is an antenna/apparatus that is designed to collect, amplify and direct energy in the electromagnetic energy spectrum, using linear and non-linear harmonic frequencies to keep the blade sharp. You could say The BladeKeeper® works to vibrate the atoms on the edge of the steel blade back into a straight line and also evens out the peaks and valleys in the edge, created by wear on the blade from shaving.
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@Jaloopa even if it works. With Dollar Shave Club, I get 4 cartridges every month for $6, with free shipping. They put the price of this thingamajic at $140. Assuming maximum efficiency of 300% increase, it would save me $54 a year. It would pay itself back only after two and a half years. Assuming it doesn't break in the meantime.
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@Gąska I have a 12-pack of disposable razors that I don't even remember when I got, and there are 6 brand-new razors left in it.
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@TimeBandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I remember back when I had cell phones that had a charging cradle that would also charge an extra battery.
I remember when a charged cell phone would last a week
there are, supposedly at least, chinesium androids with 12Ah batteries, they ought to last at least a few days.
Now, them being chinesium, and suspiciously small for that charge I'm not buying it. In either sense of the phrase.
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@Gąska said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I get 4 cartridges every month for $6, with free shipping.
My electric trimmer has lasted a couple of years so far, without even having to recharge it many times
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@Jaloopa does your electric trimmer do clean shave?
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@Gąska why would I want that?
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@Jaloopa maybe you're like me and your mustache and beard only grow to teenager size, so everything but clean shave looks awful.
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@Jaloopa said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Gąska why would I want that?
You have a neck beard?
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@Gąska said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Jaloopa even if it works. With Dollar Shave Club, I get 4 cartridges every month for $6, with free shipping. They put the price of this thingamajic at $140. Assuming maximum efficiency of 300% increase, it would save me $54 a year. It would pay itself back only after two and a half years. Assuming it doesn't break in the meantime.
It has a small learning curve, but I use a straight razor to shape my beard and the blades are basically free. I pay about 3 pounds/5 dollars for 10 blades, you snap each blade in half to use it and a half-blade lasts 2 weeks to a month.
You get an unbeatably close shave too, and it's kinda fun.
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@Cursorkeys cheap & easy beats even cheaper & how do I even hold this.
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@Gąska said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Cursorkeys cheap & easy beats even cheaper & how do I even hold this.
True, but I'm totally mal-coordinated and it only took a week or two before I wasn't getting the 'drunk-edward-scissorhands-shaved-me' look ;)
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@Cursorkeys I used to do the fancy-ass "Mach 3", mostly because my brother bought me a handle and a bunch of blades for Christmas one year, but when it wore out I just went back to these:
https://www.amazon.com/BIC-Sensitive-Single-Blade-Shaver/dp/B01AKGRDBW/ref=sr_1_3_a_it?ie=UTF8&qid=1537204770&sr=8-3&keywords=single+blade+razor+disposable&dpID=41e5qW9OEBL&preST=SX300_QL70&dpSrc=srch
You don't need 37 blades and a "lubrication strip", that shit doesn't do anything, just buy cheap disposable safety razors. Use them 2 or 3 times, then toss 'em.
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@Gąska said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@Cursorkeys cheap & easy beats even cheaper &
how do I even hold this.I JUST SLIT MY OWN THROAT AND I'M BLEEDING to dea...gurgleFTFY
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@HardwareGeek said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
FTFY
Yeah, but have you considered the sheer amount of hipster-points that you get from this?
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@cvi No.
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@HardwareGeek Well .... you should.
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@cvi said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Yeah, but have you considered the sheer amount of hipster-points that you get from this?
Hipsters don't shave
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@cvi
int desirability = -hipsterPoints;
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@TimeBandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
Hipsters don't shave
TBF, after putting yourself through that torture once, I wouldn't want to repeat the experience either.
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@HardwareGeek Didn't claim it was desirable...
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@mott555 said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@timebandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I remember back when I had cell phones that had a charging cradle that would also charge an extra battery.
I remember when a charged cell phone would last a week
My phone is random. Either I can go 2 - 3 days per charge, or it starts at 100% and is dead by noon despite me not using it for anything.
Probably depends on whether or not you have a tdwtf tab open in chrome or not.
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@dangeRuss said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@mott555 said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@timebandit said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
@polygeekery said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
I remember back when I had cell phones that had a charging cradle that would also charge an extra battery.
I remember when a charged cell phone would last a week
My phone is random. Either I can go 2 - 3 days per charge, or it starts at 100% and is dead by noon despite me not using it for anything.
Probably depends on whether or not you have a tdwtf tab open in chrome or not.
I almost never browse the web on my phone.
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@blakeyrat said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
just buy cheap disposable safety razors. Use them 2 or 3 times, then toss 'em.
You misspelled "months".
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@anotherusername said in Dumb things being crowdfunded.:
You misspelled "months".
"2 or 3 times" is not mutually-exclusive with "2 or three months".
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@blakeyrat It is when you're me and shave 2 or 3 times a week.
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@anotherusername You shave 3 times a week and can make a disposable last 3 months? ... more power to you. Maybe I'm buying the wrong brand.
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@blakeyrat I actually just replaced one that I'd been using, because I figured the trip I took the week before last was a good excuse to do so. I have no idea how long I'd been using it. Maybe if I remember, I'll post the next time I change razors.
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