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| eti:
Have you seen or heard all the hoo-haa surrounding this ridiculous Linus Tech Tips screwdriver? As usual, the poser "makers" engineers that all line their toys up on pegboard, neatly arranged like a stage set, seem to be getting all excited over it... A SCREWDRIVER. It's not even one of those utterly pointless mini electric screwdrivers, it's a basic ratcheting one selling for $69.99 (I think). If it wasn't for Mr Sebastian, there wouldn't be so much noise about a screwdriver. A. SCREWDRIVER. The world has lost the plot. It's not a ratcheting screwdriver that makes you an engineer, it's having done engineering for years because you love it, and have barely once paid more than a passing thought to a metal shaft that turns a screw, the unscrewing of which is a means to an end. I'm not annoyed that the screwdriver exists, I'm just dumbfounded by the hype train they're all boarding 🤣🤦♂️ |
| hans:
Please don't tell me this is jealously again.. Anyhow, yes it's only a screwdriver. But they did base their design of megapro's and refined it. It also got some pretty good reviews, so it must mean they have done something well. Especially for a product where the branding and LTT-support incentive seems to be put on a pedestal combined with the free sponsor spots they have in virtually all PC episodes of LTT. 70$ is quite a steep price though. It's not something I'd pay for a screwdriver, but that's similar to how I wouldn't pay 700$ for a JBC iron, or 3000$ for a 4-ch reprogrammable PSU from R&S. Those are very nice pieces of kit, and if you can spot the value-adding propositions, then it's definitely worth it. But it's way more than I need. I use my pincets and small solder wire far more frequently and intensely than screwdrivers, so with that logic, I should go and buy a 70$ pincet right now. edit: Pincet=tweezers, for some reason I always think it's a perfectly fine english word. |
| wraper:
Can you just stop being constantly annoyed about what happens on internet? BTW Project Farm tested it, and it's actually one of the best ratcheting screwdrivers. |
| eti:
--- Quote from: wraper on October 19, 2022, 07:28:38 am ---Can you just stop being constantly annoyed about what happens on internet? BTW Project Farm tested it, and it's actually one of the best ratcheting screwdrivers. --- End quote --- I don't think you could know if I'm annoyed (about a screwdriver? Annoyed? Lol). You don't have the luxury of mind-reading, and since I'm a stranger and all you have to go on is a very superficial level of perception, and you've extrapolated the rest (as has the entire populus of those who berate members for having strong views, with which they don't agree) ... Oh well, I'll let you think I'm "annoyed" then. Okay. Pack behaviour and peer pressure is hilarious in eevblog forums. So many attacking others for the very things they are blind to (often to a far worse degree!) in themselves. |
| Ed.Kloonk:
Why don't you take this issue up with Mr Sebastian? |
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