u/matthewjd1985

The cheap utility knife I open boxes with gave up on Sunday. Blade slid halfway back into the handle mid cut and I caught my thumb pushing it out. Four dollar knife, so I got what I paid for.

Did some reading after that. The Fastback kept coming up. Good, decision made, I'll go buy one.

Then I went to actually buy one. Milwaukee's own parts list has a 1501, a 1502, a 1505 and a 1520, all called Fastback. Wirecutter picks the 1502. In one thread a guy said get the one that stores spare blades in the handle and locks at 120 and 180 degrees, and two people asked him which model that was, one in September and one the following April. Neither got an answer. Blade storage is right in the 1502's name so maybe that's it, but nothing I can find lists those two angles, on any of them.

I open maybe a dozen boxes a week and break the cardboard down. That's the whole job. Around twenty bucks, and mostly I want the blade to stay where I put it.

I'm stuck at the brand. If you've owned two of these, tell me what the extra ten bucks bought.

Firm mattress topper threads all say the same thing, and I can't tell if my problem is the kind they're talking about. Bought the mattress three years ago and picked soft on purpose, which is on me. It felt like this the first week. There's no dip in the middle and no sagging edge, I put a straight edge across it and there's nothing. I sink in far enough that turning over is work.

The dog sleeps on the end of it and you can see where he flattens it, but it's back by morning.

Everything I find says a topper won't save a worn out mattress. Mine isn't worn out. It's soft the way I bought it, and that case never comes up.

Does a firm topper actually hold you up over soft foam, or does it press in and do nothing? And is this a latex thing or a foam thing, because two inches of something soft sounds pointless. Queen, back sleeper, around 200. I've got about $250 for this.

My no-name 1TB external SSD started dropping the connection mid-copy at 14 months, and now it won't mount at all. My emulator saves and a chunk of my Steam library were on it. The library I can redownload. The saves I hadn't synced anywhere. One copy, yeah, I know.

Went looking for a replacement and prices are not what I remember. I've got about $75 set aside. Last time that was a whole 1TB drive. Now it doesn't get close.

Prebuilt is what I'm after, I don't need an enclosure project right now. So which external SSD would you trust with saves you can't replace? Name the model.

The floor shows paw prints constantly, and my spin mop leaves it wet long enough for them to walk through it again. I'm checking whether the flooring manufacturer allows steam before I buy anything. If steam is allowed on your laminate, what model dries without streaks, and how many pads do you actually need in rotation?