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Isaac Lyman · 7w
Our toaster is on its last legs (a cheap one, somehow lasted 12 years) and shopping for a new one is making me unreasonably upset It’s a toaster? How hard can it be? It needs to apply heat to bread...
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Isaac Lyman @Isaac Lyman
It’s 2026 where is my open-source toaster that can be taken apart and put back together with a single flathead screwdriver. Where is my flat-pack metal toaster that could survive a dropkick and a night in the rain. Where is my toaster that looks like a miniature ENIAC and if you don’t like that you can 3d-print a new faceplate.

Please, I am begging someone to take my money
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Baroness Winter · 7w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqk58782ym2l97m4u00hejate828vwk0k0u5r8w02ap4v6556lma5slh6qkm There's more money to be made in planned obsolescence, forcing you to buy new over and over, or at least pay them to fix it. If you could fix it yourself, they couldn't extract more out ...