Title text:
The statue should be in the likeness of whatever sculptor posted the sculpting tool repair video that was most helpful during the installation of the statue.
Transcript:
Transcript will show once it’s been added to explainxkcd.com
Source: https://xkcd.com/3163/
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God I hate video tutorials. I can’t print you out to distribute to my minions so why would I want you?
Now if someone takes that video and makes an article I’ll get on my knees for that person.
And fuck using AI to do that.
Edit: I’m talking for needing info right now, I watch alot of repair vids but mostly for shit I don’t actually fix or repair it’s just more entertainment. Good to have the knowledge for the future but I want that knowledge now dammit
I was trying to fix an old Dell Digital Jukebox and was saved by a random internet comment with a link to the firmware files the commenter had dug up. There’s this concept called net utility - that dude definitely increased the net utility in the world, even if infitesimally
Definitely better than those “use the search bar” clowns.
They’re the opposite of people who post “nvm fixed” on their help requests.
This is the exact opposite of this comic
Or worse, “nevermind, fixed it”.
deleteduser said: [deleted]
randomuser said: “It works! Thanks OP!” (posted 12 years ago)
I feel strange when instead of deleted it is a random bunch of words, a trademark of actively having used some browser extension to clear out your posts and comments as part of the exodus from reddit.
Then I feel good about seeing the effects of protesting against the reddit megacorp, but also hair pullingly annoyed because FUCK NOW WHAT DO I DO ABOUT THIS TOASTER
I don’t even know how much help I removed from reddit before I left. The only sub I left in tact was the lemmy sub to help people escape at the time.
I hear that mentioning lemmy as a reddit alternative attracts the ban hammer on reddit nowadays. I do it anyways when I’m feeling cheeky.
This is where wayback machine excels
Thanks for posting this, because I started getting bummed thinking about how much of a great resource the full reddit history would be to just have online, were that whole thing not ruined gut bad reasons by bad people.
But then you reminded me about the good people.
I found the helpers, Mr Rogers!
Or, another annoying one, you find a thread, solve it yourself, and can’t post because the thread is locked for whatever dumb reason. You make a new thread and it never gets traffic from search engines. Only the old one. So nobody ever solves the problem because some mod is worried about necroing, oh the horror.
The new thread also gets closed as a duplicate of the old thread
and a couple weeks later there’s a Louis Rossmann video on how the video uploader is getting sued by the dehumidifier company
I’m annoyed at how plausible this sounds
I sat hunched under my elderly mother’s car, video running on the phone in one hand, showing how to remove a ridiculously complicated headlamp cover, just to replace a busted headlight. Hand scraped and bleeding, but it got done. Would have NEVER figured it out otherwise.
Thanks that one YouTuber.
Mechanic youtubers are honest to god heroes.
Straight to heaven
It’s like some automotive designers have never considered the concept of car maintenance. The new beetle when they came out either needed a battery removed or the inner-fender moved to get to the headlight on one side.
The on the contrary, I had a 2011 honda pilot that had a door in the fenderwell so you could get to the upstream o2 sensor
Even better when it’s a straightforward text post :’) genuine heroes.
+1, I love when theres a text post instead of a video
Edit: Unless the fix requires seeing the way they did something physical
I once heard it described as “there’s no computer problem on Earth that can’t be solved by watching a YouTube video by a random 13 year-old Indian kid“
Also applies to peeling/cutting exotic fruits. Like, how do you even open a pomegranate without making your kitchen look like it came straight out of a horror movie? Turns out, there are several ways.
Ooh, I might have to investigate that. I love pomegranate, but I never buy them because it’s just so much work. If there’s a quick and easy way to get to the good stuff, I might have to revise my strategy.
cut the flower out with 45 degree angles, shallow slice the skin top to bottom at quarter intervals, you can crack it open, takes practice.
Alternatively, you can open them underwater in a large pot, picking out the pith, if you do puncture a seed or 7 it won’t make a huge mess.
I had actual pomegranate juice from the side of the road, from a literal four sticks and a tarp set up with a hand cranked, 100 year old looking juicing contraption. The man selling was weatherbeaten and old as fuck, but when I had my drink and the I have seen the light look on my face from tasting proper, real pomegranate juice for the first time, he chuckled and told me he sees that face very often.
It’s a whole rabbit hole of tutorial videos. Try all the different methods to see what you like. I think the “restaurant style” might be your thing though. It involves doing the whole thing in a bowl of water.
I’ve been saved by them at least 6 times that I can remember.
Halting problem
Inb4 the next Ramanujan sidles up onto YouTube and breaks the entire concept of mathematics
And the solution came to him in a dream
again
There really is an xkcd for everything.
OMG, I fixed a specific whirlpool fridge by searching the model name and hum click on youtube.
There’s a tiny heater disk that makes a thermistor boost in value to change over from start to run windings. It was a $7 part available on amazon or half a dozen parts sites.
Local service techs get $120 to knock on the door.
I work at a highrise full of old rich people and my side gig is googling solutions to their tech problems. Things like unzooming their iPad, turning the child lock off on their dishwasher, or telling them their power strip is plugged into itself. They are more than happy to throw $40-50 at me for 5 minutes time that saves them hours of frustration or an expensive repair visit.
The guys who make appliance repair videos and sell the exact part you need, and you can get the part number and find it cheaper somewhere else. But, thanks for the video.
You too can be a statue candidate by not fearing the screwdriver
Or destroy the thing because you don’t know where to put yo’ hands
A risk we all have to face from time to time
Is your door hinge making a weird noise?
