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The costs of raw materials for batteries is plummeting right now. This is actually hurting the battery-makers and car-makers, as they…

The Model 3 LR has a battery warranty of 8 years or 192,000 km, so I'd expect that it will last at least that long. I'd hope it would be…

Target has gone down-market, but so has Myer. To my mind, Myer is now what Target used to be.

Within our family, we’ve had very high end and very low end rice cookers. So I at least have a basis for comparison. The kind in this…

If you’re a regular rice eater, you’re probably better to get a decent cooker. We make one or two batches of rice per day, and I really…

Raspberry Pis are fantastic for edge cases that only apply to eight people in the country. But there are many different edge cases.…

Sure, but this is not "refurbished", and it should be pointed out on every such deal that they are using the term incorrectly. There is a…

The description states it's "refurbished", but then states it has "signs of cosmetic wear and tear on the exterior". To me this simply…

Better for a desktop/router, but certainly not as good for field-use running off a USB-C power bank!

There's probably very little difference in performance between the two. The real question is whether you're regularly soldering in places…

It's really luck of the draw. I had CRT TVs in the 80s and 90s that only lasted a few years before glitching out or needing repairs. In…

Realistically, they’re used phones. Refurbished phones would have parts replaced to near-new condition. These are just cleaned, put in a…

Here’s the 72 point inspection criteria: It’s a phone: 72 points It’s a sandwich: 0 points This one scored 72 points.

It depends on what you’re doing. I do astronomical photo editing, which is extremely memory hungry (I need to work with multiple channels…

They’re not bad at all at the price-point. Personally, I think their response sounds a bit v-shaped, and the highs can be metallic. But I…

It depends on how your VR experience goes. Half the people I know with a Quest 2 are still into VR and use it all the time. The other half…

Self-raising flour is just a combination of flour, baking powder and a bit of salt. How is it really different from using standard plain…

"Happy and at peace" can mean different things to different people. Nobody can give you a universal recipe for that. To me, "happy and at…

But which version do I follow? The one that says to visualise my end goal and it will come true? The one that says to stop stressing about…

And the RG35XX is free too if you shoplift it.

It comes down to the build quality and control logic of the machine (resting, steaming, absorption cycles). The Aldi one is likely a clone…

We generally don't use the alternative to cook dinner. We've found their cooking skills are just too hit-and-miss.

The old-style rice cookers cook much faster, but the rice is never as good. It's harder, less fluffy, and less evenly cooked. The low-end,…

"Fuzzy logic" is simply deriving a logical solution where states can not be known with certainty. It's still widely in use for control…

I asked my Asian wife, and she said if I brought home a $15 cooker and asked her to cook with it, she'd divorce me.

This rice cooker is usually $169 at Bing Lee: https://www.binglee.com.au/products/cuckoo-electric-rice-cooker-6-cup-cr-0631f?ref=LHYX9C So…

For a simple appliance, there can be huge variation between rice cookers. A $20 Kmart glass-lid rice cooker will produce "rice", but it's…

40 minutes to an hour. Our cooker takes about 40-45 minutes. However, we leave the rice rest for another 5-10 minutes after it's done. If…

Generally, there's a strong correlation between long cooking cycles (with sufficient resting time for absorption) and good-tasting rice.…

I particularly like the way they support lesser-known auteurs. The kind of “real” directors who live and breathe cinema, and who…