I’ve had this one for a little over 2 years, but I suspect it wouldn’t last the
average person 2 months before it outright fails and they just throw it away.
Why? Well, electronics don’t exactly like smoke of any form, whether it be
nicotine, weed, wood, paper, etc. But that’s exactly what these lighters do,
literally light things on fire, which of course generates smoke and dirties the
electrodes, up until the point they start shorting out, if not other issues
first. I happen to be an electronics technician that knows how to safely
disassemble, service and clean this thing occasionally, but its highly suggested
that nobody ever try to service them, as they generate thousands of volts for
the electric arc, which absolutely will burn the piss out of your fingers, if
not worse. I’m actually glad to have it, it was a cheap late Christmas gift from
my mom back in January 2024, but I figure basically 99% of average consumers
would end up having issues with it and throwing it away within ~2 months or
less. Sigh, e-waste…
Lazily crossing out bits of normal words in a clear bid to increase comment count/engagement metrics to boost a post is on a sharp and marked rise on Lemmy. Do we need to have a more active hand in removing these posts to keep discussions from getting polluted? It’s really quite tedious to see it happening so often.
Yes. The comments bitching about the words being cross out should be modded. They’re the ones ruining everything and making mountains out of molehills and derailing any discussion stemming from the actual post.
Yes. The comments bitching about the words being cross out should be modded. They’re the ones ruining everything and making mountains out of molehills and derailing any discussion stemming from the actual post.
Thank you for pointing out a real problem.