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The takeaway from this article should be to consider modifying your tools to your needs even in unconventional and controversial ways. I love it. The flame war
by yreg 6mo ago
The takeaway from this article should be to consider modifying your tools to your needs even in unconventional and controversial ways. I love it.
The flame war on whether the original chassis design sucks or rocks is not that interesting.
- Steltek 6mo agoThis is why I like cheaper tools. Yes, that means cheaper quality but it's far easier to approach taking a dremel to it. And the DIY look usually matches the stock materials better anyway.
- tcdent 6mo agoNah, taking the risk is even more fun when the thing you're modifying holds more value. Chopping the fenders on a Porsche 911 to install a widebody kit does not have the same weight as rolling the seams on an Jeep Cherokee.
- seizethecheese 6mo agoAll things being equal, sure, but I personally am way more likely to mod the Cherokee than the Porsche
- dotancohen 6mo agoI'd say it's an even split. Half the Jeeps on the road and on the trails are modified. On the road maybe 1/10 of Porches are modified, but on the track 90% are. Big difference between bolt-ons vs deeper mods too.
- rpcope1 6mo agoGo to any mechanic thats been doing cars, especially if it's a focused subset of cars, for more than a few year and I guarantee they'll either have some modified HF sockets or wrenches or some home made tools. Probably don't want to cut up your SnapOff debt peonage tools, but a lot of the time they alone don't cut it.
- snowwrestler 6mo agoI really like the design and the sharp edges don’t hurt my wrists. I also really like this article and am 100% supportive of people messing around and modifying their stuff.
- jonhohle 6mo ago25 years ago one of early engineering courses included a case study about Ingersol Rand (IIRC). They went out to work floors and saw how all the workers had modified their air wrenches in the same way, adding padding with tape in various areas. They realized they could probably make a better wrench if it had some of those ergonomics built in. Maybe the next phase of Apple could return to flowing shapes and save our wrists.
- noisy_boy 6mo agoInterchangeable wrist area as an accessory for only 79.99$
- hammock 6mo agoThe funny thing is Apple products are considered “finished products” No one would feel the same way if it was a home built computer. The modding community is a shadow of its old self these days
- jnovek 6mo agoThat doesn’t seem strange to me, Apple is my “buy it for what’s on the box” brand, stuff that I don’t want to mod. If I want to mess with something I usually use hardware that runs Linux.
- pjmlp 6mo agoThe modding community lives on where it always were, hacking gaming and demoscene, and that never wasn't on Apple platforms for the most part, rather Amiga, PC, Atari,...
- justinclift 6mo ago> The takeaway from this article should be to consider modifying your tools to your needs even in unconventional and controversial ways. I love it. I get the feeling that might not be the greatest idea in some fields. For example, anything that could kill you (or others) if it goes wrong. ;)
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- duxup 6mo agoWhen I got into photography, I used to baby my camera equipment a lot. After all, I spent a lot of money I wanted to take care of it. Later on the topic came up online and someone noted something to the effective of: “If I saw a group of photographers taking pictures, I bet I could pick out the best photographer just based on how beat up their equipment is.” I realized based on my own experience, that was probably true. The idea being use your tools and worry about the output, not how they look.
- LiquidPolymer 6mo agoI’ve made my living as a pro photographer for over 30 years. These days I consider most cameras to be disposable. I also keep any older bodies as hazardous duty remote cameras. Once you get into the mindset it opens a certain amount of creativity.
- flkiwi 6mo agoThe number of times I find myself saying to beginning photographers that babying their camera is the surest way to hate photography, whether as a hobby or a profession… I get particularly testy about handwringing about weather sealing or protecting the finish on their kit. Just take the camera places and use it. It’s probably going to be fine. It’s going to get scars. That’s just stories.
- makeitdouble 6mo agoThere's a curve. Beginners with pristine gears are babying it, but veterans just don't bump their camera everywhere nor drop them, they have the bags that fit what they do, use straps (or not) that fit them and there's little to hurt their camera. Event photographers are another kind, camera throwing is part of the job. I wonder if you feel the same about cars, expecting expert chauffeurs to have bumps all over their car ?
- duxup 6mo agoI don’t think there’s a connection at all with chauffeurs.
- jblitzar 6mo agoYeah, I think it's pretty funny. And it is good to modify your own tools. In a way that's the whole sentiment of FOSS software.
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- KolibriFly 6mo agoThe interesting part isn't whether Apple got the design right or wrong, it's that most of us never even consider altering the tools we use every day. We just adapt ourselves instead.
- AnthonBerg 6mo agoAnd commonly get judgy and weird if somone thinks and does.
- bityard 6mo agoThis is exactly why I run Linux instead of an OS that I'm not allowed to modify for my needs.
- Zetaphor 6mo agoSoftware should adapt to the user, not the other way around
- Uptrenda 6mo agoI used to turn the back of my laptop into a whiteboard. Then you could write todos on it or custom messages. Was kind of neat. You know I've always thought the back of the case was wasted potential. Can you imagine if it had an eink display? You could flash whatever you wanted to it as a clean customized print and it would stay there without power. would be cool but prob expensive.
- lwhi 6mo agoI love this with all my heart!