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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 00:47:03 JST goatsarah

   Once upon a time the Internet would tell you what to press to make your dishwasher drain.

   Now it wants to show you a video, about replacing your drain hose, by visiting their affiliate link, to remove the blockage.

   It’s not blocked. I just want to know how to make it drain.

   I gave up and just ran it on the shortest cycle on the basis that it will drain at the end.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 00:50:08 JST goatsarah

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     It pisses me off that domestic appliances with good user interfaces are simply not available. At any cost. You cannot buy good ones. They are not made. At all.

     It’s a race to the bottom. Nobody fills the “I want to pay more for a quality product” niche.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 00:52:49 JST goatsarah

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     And you can no-longer work around it by looking stuff up on the internet, because nobody makes a working search engine anymore.
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     Rachel (transitory@hachyderm.io)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 04:17:07 JST Rachel

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     @goatsarah I want dials levers and switches that go thunk, with raised or deeply etched legends that aren't just screen printed, and more metal everywhere.

     I don't need 5 different very slightly different dishwasher settings, we all know I'm just gonna hit the "regular" one every time any

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     Thomas Lobig (tom_ofb@chaos.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 05:38:40 JST Thomas Lobig

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     @goatsarah your precient words have manifested this toot of mine: (or maybe i just got inspired to it)
     https://chaos.social/@Tom_ofB/111206931074450449

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     GNU Too (gnu2@gnusocial.jp)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 06:19:55 JST GNU Too

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     personally I feel like I've been getting better results by using a SearXNG instance and just changing the meta search settings to only use engines I've never heard of.
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     Rachel (rachel@transitory.social)'s status on Monday, 30-Oct-2023 06:20:13 JST Rachel

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     @goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org I want dials levers and switches that go thunk, with raised or deeply etched legends that aren't just screen printed, and more metal everywhere.
     
     I don't need 5 different very slightly different dishwasher settings, we all know I'm just gonna hit the "regular" one every time any

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