• Diplomjodler@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    There certainly are plenty of people who use those things because they enjoy being obnoxious twats.

    • RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Seeing how some very particular relatives are, I wonder if much of the gas leaf blower crowd is less “watch me stick it to the libs” and more “look at me, I’m cleaning my yard, that makes me better than you”

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      6 months ago

      I use things that work (even if you find them loud or annoying) 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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        6 months ago

        I use things that work

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

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          6 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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        6 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.

        What happened to the giant metal vacuum cleaners that doubled as a blunt-force weapons?