• SethranKada@lemmy.caEnglish
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    11 days ago

    The Bic pen. Sure, you can make it better, but then the price has to go up. You can still buy a nearly unchanged Bic pen from any office store for cheaper than any other writing tool, nearly identical to what they looked like when they were first invented.

      • HouseWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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        10 days ago

        I’ll see your Bic and raise you Zippo!

        Just got my first one a while back, I bought it 2nd hand and it’s 7 years older than me and works better than any lighters I’ve borrowed off people over the years.

        Replacement parts and even completely new lighter inserts still fit the original cases from the 1940s until now. And if something does break beyond you ability to repair, They got a lifetime warranty with no proof of purchase needed!

        • over_clox@lemmy.world
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          10 days ago

          I had a chrome Zippo XIV, one of the models you just don’t fuck with.

          I loaned it out one day to light fireworks. Somehow they overheated and ruined the flint wheel…

          Anyways, if I catch you swapping Zippo parts, I’m gonna melt Frosty the Snowman…

        • Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          9 days ago

          I have a zippo, I like that it’s easy to pour in liquid fuel and they are somewhat wind resistant but the fuel does evaporate away over time. I keep it in a plastic bag which does slow the rate of fuel evaporation though.

          Not sure what cheaper fuels could work well in it, that would reduce the cost of fuel that just evaporates then and I don’t use it that often so I suspect more is lost to evaporation than usage.

      • Suck_on_my_Presence@lemmy.world
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        11 days ago

        I was curious too so I looked it up.

        Pens. Lighters. And razors for shaving. Mostly the single use ones.

        But also

        BIC has drawn criticism for maintaining its business operations in Russia after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

        :C

        • алсааас [she/they]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          10 days ago

          But did they stop selling in the USA after e.g. the invasion of Grenada and Iraq and civilian bombing of Yugoslavia?

          And obvious question is whether they still do business with the Zionazis…

  • PrivateNoob@sopuli.xyz
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    11 days ago

    Dinner plates. Wooden, marble, ceramic or whatever it’s made from, it does it’s job perfectly.

    EDIT: Yes, I’m hungry

    • Drewmeister@lemmy.world
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      11 days ago

      Since you mention the d-pad. It was patented, so all the big companies had their own legally distinct spins on it. Nintendo has their cross; sega had a circle thing; Sony had discrete buttons, Microsoft had a different circle thing.

      The Nintendo patent actually expired a number of years ago now, so nowadays the cross is showing up more places.

    • nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca
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      8 days ago

      I mean this thread is about tech that was perfect from it’s inception to the point where it didn’t or barely improved. Nothing could be further from the truth, transistor tech has had literally trillions of dollars and millions of smart people’s careers poured into it, and semiconductor IC manufacturing is now the most complicated single activity that our species does.

  • Cyberflunk@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    Internet Protocol.

    ipv4 remains dominant.

    tcp and ip merged in like 1973, and it lived in labs till 82 or 83. after that its been 40 years of nearly perfect ip spec

  • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    10 days ago

    I think sewing machines would count? They certainly got a hell lot more “portable”, but the basic design hasn’t changed much since the 1880s. Those things are little mechanical marvels

    • kossa@feddit.org
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      9 days ago

      Well, for “normal” ones they changed a lot about the lower thread. Also there came overlock machines to make life easier for certain stitches.

      But nonetheless, they are marvelous machines, I love them so much. It is mechanic porn, and granted, the design of the old ones was perfect. Don’t need all that plastic 😅

  • Bustedknuckles@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I’m surprised that I’m the first to say “p-trap” drain. Self-maintaining, no moving parts, affordable as anything, protects the indoors from sewer gas, catches rings. Chefs kiss 200 years old and still great

  • lemming741@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Solid body electric guitars- the first models have been in continuous production and are still available.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fender_Telecaster

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibson_Les_Paul

    There were earlier “electric guitars” but I’m thinking all inventions build on previous creations. I don’t think you’ll find many pure answers to OPs question. I think the closest you’ll find is going to be an advancement that produced a single step change in design that flattened the innovation curve forever after. I think the microwave oven was a great example.

    Electric fuses also come to mind. Little has changed since 1890.

    • notarobot@lemmy.zip
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      10 days ago

      Really? I tried a bunch of time and don’t see the appeal. I haven found any like category filtering so I can’t subscible to like just tech or whatever. I think I’m doing it wrong

      • ☂️-@lemmy.ml
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        9 days ago

        you are supposed to get the feeds from the sites you visit, and build a single feed from that.

        • Waraugh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          9 days ago

          I want a scrolling news crawler thing on my home assistance dashboard and getting a functional rss integration working with it has been more challenging than anything else I’ve done and I’ve automated a lot, put together an entire camera and alarm system together for my residence, made a little dopamine game that shows me my daily score for Todoist tasks I get done, etc, etc. I think it frustrates me so much because I thought it would be a fun side project to work on between more challenging pursuits while learning the system and it’s all that still persists.

          Edit: looks like this guide just came out a month ago, maybe it will help me get there. https://youtu.be/CK5tyvrt7pw

      • mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        9 days ago

        The goal is to treat the various sources as potential sources, just like you subscribe to communities here. Instead of subscribing to a tech community, you can subscribe to the various tech news sites that you enjoy.