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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] MrSlicer 56 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The internet is unsearchable at this point. I feel like 99% of websites are fronts.

[–] markr 24 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Product information search is now totally useless. I used to be able to use a part number to find a manual, now it is just scammers Amazon and eBay.

YouTube videos were once good sources for DIY, now the useful shit is buried behind product placement bullshitters.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Or websites showing the first page of a manual and requiring payment if you want to see the rest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

If it could be done, and done right, I'd love to see a couple wiki-like additions to the fediverse, one focused on products and product-specific information and care, with the other focused on the development of a catalogue of methodologies and tech for production and more general repair. Not tech news like the technology instances I'm aware of.

But I guess it's not suited for the format, nor could we really hope for the task of building anything even close to exhaustive to be a surmountable one for us.

I had some ideas about UI/UX for something like this a while ago, though it wouldn't work with Lemmy. I could probably find my notes and sketches, but effectively they're just a bunch of wishful thinking born from my dissatisfaction with the limitations of Wikipedia, the chaos of Google, Youtube, and Reddit, and the ridiculousness that is WikiHow.

It's been a few years tbat I've been crossing my fingers for a positive paradigm shift specifically for the online content about products and DIY.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I feel like if that ever got popular then it would inevitably become tainted by people trying to promote certain products.

[–] maggoats 1 points 2 years ago

There might be some kind of trust system that could work. I have no idea of course but I'm envisioning something like Stack Overflow's system and a bit of community correction and authority à la Wikipedia.

[–] Misconduct 5 points 2 years ago

What's been pissing me off for years now is googling a specific company and getting a wall of advertisements for their competitors first. So. Dirty.