Who knew there was a championship in flat packing.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
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    11 hours ago

    A woman has retained her title as Flatpack World Champion and broken her personal best assembly time in the process.

    eight minutes 20 seconds

    Coding anything in assembly in under 9 minutes is incredible, much less publishing a full app!

  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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    16 hours ago

    I wonder how they standardize. The difference between IKEA and not-IKEA from a familiarity as well as design standpoint can be significant. IKEA is easy, but I’ve had some alternative companies that don’t put any care into how things go together.

    • Victor@lemmy.world
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      14 hours ago

      Dude IKEA doesn’t care how things go together.

      Every fucking time I buy IKEA shit it always comes out wiggly wobbly or something didn’t quite align right or this or that or the other. It’s cheap garbage.

      Relatively recently decided to splurge on a bunk bed for the kids from a real furniture store that costs a little more.

      Everything was tight, bro. Fit so good, and everything was just so sturdy and steady. Loved building it together with the wife as well. It was quite enjoyable.

      I hate IKEA. Greetings from its motherland. 🙍‍♂️

      • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de
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        14 hours ago

        That’s the complete opposite of my experience

        Yeah, ikea is cheap and doesn’t last. But double the price and it feels the same (wobbly), except the holes are 1mm from where they should be.

    • FrChazzz@lemmus.org
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      16 hours ago

      I’m amused when TV or comedians make jokes about IKEA furniture being difficult to build. Like, are they confusing IKEA with some dorm furniture they bought at Wal-Mart? Because that junk is sometimes borderline: “make it look like the picture on the box”

      • Leon@pawb.social
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        15 hours ago

        I bought a bed a few years back. It was a continental with a headboard. It had a three step instruction with stick figures on it. Essentially, place headboard against wall, push bed against headboard, you’re done, be happy.

        Awful bed, but the instructions were the best I’ve ever had. They felt like malicious compliance.

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                2 hours ago

                Poor quality? Yeah. It’s cardboard, mostly.

                Their hallmark isn’t quality though, it’s affordability.

                • Victor@lemmy.world
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                  2 hours ago

                  Agreed, and I’m effing done with it. I’d rather pay more for something I do want than less for something I don’t want.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    Flatpack World Championship

    WTF is this? Is she some world leading package manager?

    and broken her personal best assembly time in the process.

    I guess it must be, they probably mean compiler and not assembler, did she overclock her computer? Or use specially compiled compilers?

    building a bedside table in eight minutes 20 seconds.

    Goddammit! What does that have to do with “flatpack”?