Plagued Consoomers / Consoomer Culture - Because if it has a recogniseable brand on it, I’d buy it!

[bliblblblbbllb]

I kind of disagree with the digital photo album idea on the basis that it could all disappear with a fatal computer mishap.

I honestly agree and taking pictures of my things has never made them easier to part with.

However in some cases a digital version is probably nicer.
For instance there was a giant, ratty, moldy wooden rocking horse that my parents kept in my closet because they had the notion it would get passed on to my kids.
It would be a lot better to keep a nice picture of when I was a kid playing with the rocking horse when it was nice, than that rotting zombie corpse that was eventually dragged to the curb when I needed someplace to stick my rucksack.

Another example would be people who tend to collect trinkets from every vacation or trip. Keeping a digital photo album is a lot nicer than having a house coated head to toe in Made In China destination keychains and magnets.

You can stick things in a google drive/dropbox/etc backed up on your computer, and then also backed up to an external drive in a safetybox or buried someplace if you're that scared.

It hits close to home because my grandmother left me over 100 photo giant albums that I'm in the process of digitizing because 1) they are rotting away and 2) they take up an entire wall and if I don't do this, they're just going to be trashed. I'm gonna put it into the Internet Archive: a lot of it is historical, photos from wars and landmarks being built.

 

[Sarcastic sockpuppet]

This is coming from "normie" people, not tumblr wiccans or lolcows.

There is no clear distinction between "normies" and wiccans, lolcows, anti-vax types because science education is way bellow what it should be and pseudo-science has invaded everything. Most people have a certain level of dumb alternative beliefs on top of the pre-existing ones tied with religious beliefs. Women are usually the most obvious ones because of beauty culture, astrology and celebrity bullshit, and at least the gurus pretend to have solutions to their problems that doctors and husbands tends to ignore. But men are almost equally crappy.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

anti-vax types

that word no longer means what it did 10-20 years ago
its too nice for them now and its certainly not in the same wagon as normie-adjacent anything

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

It hits close to home because my grandmother left me over 100 photo giant albums that I'm in the process of digitizing because 1) they are rotting away and 2) they take up an entire wall and if I don't do this, they're just going to be trashed. I'm gonna put it into the Internet Archive: a lot of it is historical, photos from wars and landmarks being built.

Yeah, definitely. Digitize it then keep all the precious photos in a sealed box that's water proof. Collect annotations from your family and layout the pages with the annotations alongside the photos. Print it all in C2S and bind it in hardcover.

Oh, and have someone particularly sentimental in your family write an introduction.

 

[moocow]

I kind of disagree with the digital photo album idea on the basis that it could all disappear with a fatal computer mishap.

That and it's getting much more difficult in recent years to find a photo service that can produce decent prints that won't turn to shit ten years down the road. Everything from the stock to the inks/dyes they use is engineered to be cheap, not archival quality.

 

[電子農家]

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He makes the soy face so thought you guys would like it.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

The one good trend that came about from Tiktok is people's habit of putting every word they say on the screen so that I don't have to listen to their unpleasent vocalizations

 

[WelperHelper99]

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He makes the soy face so thought you guys would like it.

Cool display box...for a 200 dollar toothbrush lol. Seriously, lights and sounds for a toothbrush, even if it's Iron man and that kinda makes sense. You can buy a lot with 200 but waste it on a toothbrush. Lmao.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

Cool display box...for a 200 dollar toothbrush lol. Seriously, lights and sounds for a toothbrush, even if it's Iron man and that kinda makes sense. You can buy a lot with 200 but waste it on a toothbrush. Lmao.

he keeps talking about how cool it is but i dont think i can bring myself to call anything made from plastic "the coolest thing evah"
theres just a barrier of sorts in the way

 

[WelperHelper99]

he keeps talking about how cool it is but i dont think i can bring myself to call anything made from plastic "the coolest thing evah"
theres just a barrier of sorts in the way

Something made of metal or wood and glass is fucking cool. Like one of those Nixie Tube clocks

Tells time, and fits with any decor. I'd spend good money on that.

 

[Matt Damon]

Some people like to listen to music as close to how it was intended to be heard instead of through shitty laptops, bluetooth speakers or $10 Chinese headphones. But I’ll grant you, once you hit a certain quality threshold the difference is non-existent and you’re paying for clout. Ideally you’d have production monitors with a flat frequency response so nothing in the EQ is artificially boosting the sound.

I bought a pair of studio monitors for my own mixing and mastering, but they're fantastic for just listening on. It doesn't hurt that they're built like a brick shithouse and are likely the last pair of speakers I'll ever need to buy.

 

[Shig O'nella]

he keeps talking about how cool it is but i dont think i can bring myself to call anything made from plastic "the coolest thing evah"
theres just a barrier of sorts in the way

Make it out of classic Bakelite and give it some retro styling and it'd sell. Rather well.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

i think its not just the look but also the knowladge of how cheap plastic is and how long it lasts, or rather, doesnt last
youre paying 200$ for something that took a barely precentage of that to manufacture, and is gonna last you a very, very short time

 

[Roland TB-303]

I bought a pair of studio monitors for my own mixing and mastering, but they're fantastic for just listening on. It doesn't hurt that they're built like a brick shithouse and are likely the last pair of speakers I'll ever need to buy.

Studio monitors are one of the last consumer products that are built to last, mine will be passed onto my children for sure. I got mine second hand and I use them every day so the money spent was well worth it. Plus they’re so versatile, a friend has the same model Adam’s as I do but has them hooked up to a record player, sounds incredible.

 

[WelperHelper99]

i think its not just the look but also the knowladge of how cheap plastic is and how long it lasts, or rather, doesnt last
youre paying 200$ for something that took a barely precentage of that to manufacture, and is gonna last you a very, very short time

Yeah, electric toothbrushes, unless you shell out, don't last the longest. This is a toy, a display piece. This thing is going to wear out, battery lose its charge, and worse, get grimey from all the toothpaste.

 

[Cuntspiracy Man]

Genuinely do electric toothbrushes do anything? At all? they spin so slowly and so weakly that you can stop them by pressing on em a little too hard, and I find that I generally can't be bothered with them and just use them like a regular one
I have tons of em purely because I know people who worked in factories and got me buckets of em for free, but I hardly ever end up using that function

 

[DrearyDoomguy]

Genuinely do electric toothbrushes do anything? At all? they spin so slowly and so weakly that you can stop them by pressing on em a little too hard, and I find that I generally can't be bothered with them and just use them like a regular one
I have tons of em purely because I know people who worked in factories and got me buckets of em for free, but I hardly ever end up using that function

Depends on the brand. The Oral-B series is pretty solid and actually has enough power properly clean your teeth in lieu of manual brushing.

 

[Zbk3VmLfujjzjxBd43tL]

Genuinely do electric toothbrushes do anything? At all? they spin so slowly and so weakly that you can stop them by pressing on em a little too hard, and I find that I generally can't be bothered with them and just use them like a regular one
I have tons of em purely because I know people who worked in factories and got me buckets of em for free, but I hardly ever end up using that function

I have one from Philips that my dentist recommended. It spins fast and doesn't stop if you press too hard and is better at cleaning your teeth since it scrubs hard enough to brush away junk while not scrubbing too hard and eroding the enamel (which can happen if you manually brush too hard).

You also have to pay good money for it, like I got mine a decade ago for like $25 and you have to buy new heads every few months. I know the shitty sort of electric toothbrushes you're talking about though.

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

I bought myself a metal tea strainer a week or two back and it's made loose leaf tea just as convenient as pre-bagged.
Coffee-wise, I never found drip all that inconvenient. It takes 10 minute tops to prep a pot of coffee and that's if you have to clean it up from a previous brewing. The leftover coffee can be stored in a mason jar and either enjoyed cold or reheated in a microwave. Hell, blend some cold leftover coffee with a bit of ice, a pinch of cinnamon, and a table spoon or two of creamer and you've got the perfect iced coffee for hot days.

Drip's not bad at all. It's the best choice for an office where many people will be drinking it. For just you and yours at home, buy the beans, grind em in an autogrinder, and just use a french press. Coffee tastes better, you use less of it, you can chuck the grounds out your window, and there is no actual waste in terms of filters or anything else. Just the actual bag the beans came in when you're done. It takes like 5 mins out of your morning to make it that way, too.

 

[BallsMcLongDong]

Something made of metal or wood and glass is fucking cool. Like one of those Nixie Tube clocks
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Tells time, and fits with any decor. I'd spend good money on that.

Buy old analog clocks and repair them. You'd be surprised how retard easy they are to fix. And they're really fucking satisfying hearing em tick-tock away and chime on the hours.