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Comment on Hearing is be-leafing: Students invent quieter leaf blower

I use things that work because typically over engineered things (like the ‘quiet’ leafblower) are most likely very problematic and will fail. I just do not trust anything new anymore. Companies did this and forced me to stop caring about ‘innovation’ with their constant lies and fraud.

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MonkderDritte@feddit.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I use things that work

Blowing leaves around instead of removing it, isn’t ideal then.

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- catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Leafblowers are used to collect it into a pile which is then raked/shoveled into a bin. The blower is much faster and less effort than the rake at collecting everything into the pile.
  
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  - Mbourgon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Everyone I see using them merely uses it to blow the detritus into the street. What you’re saying makes a lot of sense, but people don’t do that
    
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    catloaf@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah, well, you can’t fix stupid.
    
    Although if there isn’t that much, I suppose letting it dry and break down in the local environment is better than putting it in a landfill. If there’s a lot of it, then at least in cities I’ve lived in, they can and do ticket for putting yard waste or shoveling snow in the street.
    
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  - PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    No, that’s what a rake does.
    
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- Fiivemacs@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Do you think a leaf BLOWER sucks leaves up?
  
  Your thinking of a leaf vacuum which the article is NOT referring too…
  
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Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Yeah, I figure that’s the kind of thing they’re going to say.

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TimeSquirrel@kbin.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
No we obviously need more cheap plastics that will dry rot in your shed and shitty rubber grips that will turn to sticky goo in five years, as well as lowest bidder designed control circuitry with a dozen corners cut.

I get what you mean, modern power tools feel like Fisher Price toys. They're disposable.

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- spidermanchild@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Maybe the garbage brands. Milwaukee, DeWalt, Makita, etc are very well made, and significantly more powerful than they were 5-10 years ago.
  
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- PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Hey, don’t diss Fisher Price toys. The old ones from 40+ years ago were solid. So much so that the iconic telephone on wheels and with eyes is still around.
  
  Modern day crap though? Oh I’m with you!
  
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