memes

21953 readers

1881 users here now

Community rules

1. Be civil

No trolling, bigotry or other insulting / annoying behaviour

2. No politics

This is non-politics community. For political memes please go to !politicalmemes@lemmy.world

3. No recent reposts

Check for reposts when posting a meme, you can only repost after 1 month

4. No bots

No bots without the express approval of the mods or the admins

5. No Spam/Ads/AI Slop

No advertisements or spam. This is an instance rule and the only way to live. We also consider AI slop to be spam in this community and is subject to removal.

A collection of some classic Lemmy memes for your enjoyment

Sister communities

!tenforward@lemmy.world : Star Trek memes, chat and shitposts
!lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world : Lemmy Shitposts, anything and everything goes.
!linuxmemes@lemmy.world : Linux themed memes
!comicstrips@lemmy.world : for those who love comic stories.

founded 3 years ago

MODERATORS

Tenthrow@lemmy.world

The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world

The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website

1200

Where my iT’s A fEaTuRe homeys at? (aussie.zone)

submitted 4 days ago by joelfromaus@aussie.zone to c/memes@lemmy.world

134 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Spoiler

Probably at the hardware store picking up more Phillips head screws.

(page 3) 35 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I have impact-driven thousands of screws into wood in my back yard in the past 18 months. Over 1,000 of them were 6" (15cm) big guys, along with tons of 2.5" (~6cm) and 3.5" (9cm).

Every last one was Torx / hexalobular / 6-point. When I bought hardware that came with free phillips head screws, I threw that shit away and used my own.

The "feature" that philips head brings to the table makes it worse for just about every use case other than "I own exactly one screwdriver and never want to get another one."

Torx doesn't HAVE to be the alternative. There are many good screw designs out there. It's just that where I live, that's the non-philips choice that dominates the market. Every store has a variety of choices for torx-driven construction screws.

[–] iocase@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

In Canada it's Robertson for construction which is literally a square hole. It works phenomenally well in my opinion especially with drills with torque cutoffs. The only benefit of Phillips or posidrive is the automatic cam-out to control torque, which we don't need anymore with modern tools.

[–] UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

PH itself is not even that terrible - but companies use the cheapest metal you can find to make the worst possible screws with it

[–] Zink@programming.dev 1 points 3 days ago

Iirc it was indeed designed to be terrible back in the day to protect bits on machines by camming out.

[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 0 points 3 days ago

Using well made screwdriver bits, replacing them when worn. Never had a ph head stripped since I started doing that. I've more Robertsons stripped in that time. In fact I've grown to dislike Robertson.

load more comments