I’m curious, what’s an item, tool, or purchase you own that you feel has completely justified its cost over time? Could be anything from a gadget to a piece of furniture or even software. What made it worth it for you?
I’m curious, what’s an item, tool, or purchase you own that you feel has completely justified its cost over time? Could be anything from a gadget to a piece of furniture or even software. What made it worth it for you?
A good set of small screwdrivers from iFixit. I’ve done stuff like change watch batteries. Usually a jeweller will charge you ten bucks for that, while the battery itself costs a tenth of that.
On watches like most Casios, it’s as simple as unscrewing four simple screws and popping in a new battery. Do that three times and the screwdrivers will pay for themselves.
They’re also wildly useful for everything else, of course. Highly recommended.
Ifixit, I used to trust them more but they recently burned my trust recently because of some incorrect teardown instructions that cause more potential for damage
https://youtube.com/shorts/OJLxPHG-jCg
This person enters from the top of the magic mouse gently prying the glass off which is way easier to enter
Ifixit for some reason choose to enter through the bottom and gave a lower score
https://youtu.be/BCKxAQXdTJ8
This person properly tears down the essential phone while ifixit for some god-damn reason choose to freeze the phone, yes they actually froze the phone which caused condensation between the glass and the screen if I recall correctly from looking at IFixIt’s teardown
And idiotic “news” sites having a slow news day decided to report on it without factchecking ifixit
This is not to say IFixIt’s product quality and customer service are bad though because I actually bought their antistatic wrist band thing when building my gaming PC and it was very good quality and their customer service was helpful and quick in cancelling an order where I realised I accidentally orded the wrong product past the point where you could cancel it online
But I’ll still be wary of IFixIt I’m the future though
Personally, all I know is the tools. Which came recommended, and did not disappoint. I try to stay out of other drama beyond that :D