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4.5.15
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The surprises of chinese upselling.
My mother has a hand vacuum. It stopped charging. She bought a new one, on the assumption that it would work just fine with the existing charging station. (same model, but without co-packaged charging dock, which was no longer available as a set)
Nope.
They actually produced two different versions, so they could save money on the two tiny metal contacts at the bottom.
#chineseengineering #cheapproducts #upselling #marketsegmentation
there is no such thing as "fewer regulations" in economy.
It's just a question of who get's to write them and if you are allowed to know about them.
There are regulations that are law.
And in absence of law there are tons of implicit regulations, internal guidelines, licenses and all sorts of agreements made by companies themselves.
They are regulations all the same, but self-written to benefit only the designers.
This is awesome ...
Nigerian distributors made a home-made promotion video about the product they bought and are reselling.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/EbWhJe-s8Bc
No AI, just a minimal-cost high effort video tailored to an audience and culture I know way too little about.
full disclosure: The product is something I worked on 😃 so I guarantee it works very well.
#dna #rna #dnasynthesis #molecularEngineering #molecularbiology #synbio #kilobaser #nigeria
GrapehenOS explaining the difference between SecurityAttestation and BusinessModelAttestation 😁
If you use some of these apps listed in the article, maybe enlighten their developers too 😁
https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide
Some photos to raise the spirits ☺️
Over the last few days I could enjoy the awesome landscape of the isle of skye, doing some light hiking.
wie geil ist denn das!
https://www.ifixit.com/News/115827/new-thinkpads-score-perfect-10-repairability
Kann man #lenovo nur gratulieren!
Wenn ich nicht schon so ein super feines recht neues #thinkpad hätte, wäre das meine Wahl. Besonders weil der frame.work voraussichtlich nie einen #trackpoint haben wird, ist das eine außerordentlich gute Nachricht für mich.
The wikipedia article on electrostatics has the best cat picture 😽
