I kinda miss a few opinions on the topic of “screw taste” here. 🥲

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  • The Quuuuuill@slrpnk.net
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    5 hours ago

    you take that back about the square drive and pin that shit on the phillips head

    context: the square drive was designed as a universal open standard for affixing things to other things. the phillips head was designed as a cheap alternative to torque wrenches

    • burntbacon@discuss.tchncs.de
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      3 hours ago

      Designed as? No, it was a happy accident. The original patent mentioned nothing about it, and then when they realized they could make that claim the patent was updated.

      Fuck phillip head everything.

    • flesh@lemmy.zip
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      3 hours ago

      Square bit as the go-to general purpose bit is the correct opinion. Every time I have to pull my square bit off to put a Philips on I am just disappointed.