Front panel connectors on motherboards.
Wheel PCD and hub size.
If every car and (light) truck had a 5x114.3 bolt pattern and a 66mm hub size we could swap so many wheels around. It would be amazing.cries in Volvo 5x108 finding non-oem wheels is impossible
Social networks should be standardised on activity pub.
Networks are a winner takes it all situation. Standardise and allow competition within a network. Then innovation will happen much faster. We are like Romans not using the steam engine. Future historiens will wonder why we were stuck so long.
We’re getting there, with Threads implementing AP soon and any network that doesn’t do so will be locked into their own world (usually, for the worse).
The problem is that we might get a Google situation, where at first the company adheres and complies to the standard, but then they innovate so fast and confusingly, that they essentially define the standard, and all other networks have to keep up to remain part of the main flock.
In a winner takes all – that would be Google, and we will see much of the same dark patterns with AP protocols as we do with Browsers now.
Exactly
So often, the big players who have the power to grow and support standards in a major way are shitty corporations, and the altruistic, ethical organizations are tiny and broke and feeble
Faucet water pressure. Not so strong so that it doesn’t make me wet but strong enough to feel confident that I actually washed my hand.
Screw drives.
Fucking file formats in the scientific community. Way too many ways to do something in science and every place has their own way.
check out the linux community, whole chat about file formats rn
Can we agree on .hdf/.h5?
Didn’t have any knowledge about this but I will definitely note this for future projects!
United States specific: The naming system of hospital units or some other standardized indicator of what skill level is actually practiced on that unit.
An ICU should be an ICU, not “Intensive Care Unit” at this hospital, but “Critical Care Unit” at that other hospital and the"Stepdown Unit" here is called “Progressive Care Unit” there, but “Transitional Care Unit” at that other place.
It leads to so much confusion when trying to transfer patients between facilities and/or understand what kind of care they were receiving at a previous admission at a different facility.
In the USA, it would be to metric. Pretty much everywhere else in the US, NASA, military, science, it’s all metric.
It’s not even a case of ‘everywhere else’, it’s actually ‘everywhere’.
It’s just that some sections of that ‘everywhere’ take the metric system and add an abstraction on top of it.
The imperial system literally defines itself by the metric system.
Printer ink cartridges. Printer manufacturers are using a loss leader pricing scheme, and I don’t like it. Let them compete!
Switch to laser.
A lot of the printers these days uses ink tanks. But yeah. Use laser
Or if B&W is fine, go for inkless
Computer devices. Installing Arch Linux and syncing most Important directories with Syncthing so you can work on every device and be sync around the world.
Power tool batteries.
It’s not quite what you’re talking about because they’re still brand-specific, but the batteries are a big part of why I went with Ryobi. They’ve done a really good job of sticking with their battery ecosystem IMO, and it’s now kind of a big part of their marketing so I think they’re going to stick with it for a while, at least for their regular 18v hand tools. If I ever come across some old blue Ryobi tools at a yard sale they should work just fine with the lithium batteries even though they were designed for NiCad batteries, and I’m pretty sure you can still get a dual chemistry charger that works for both kinds of battery.
I’m pretty sure that in the same time Ryobi has been around using using essentially the same batteries most of the big names are on their 2nd or 3rd battery standard.
Admittedly they haven’t been perfect, they’ve done pretty well sticking with their 18v and 40v lines, but I think they’ve had a couple different standards for smaller, lower-powered tools that have come and gone, although I like what they’ve been doing with their newer USB lithium line so I hope that sticks around. I think they also had a riding mower battery that was only around for a couple years before they replaced it with a new incomparable one.
And I’m very much a DIY homeowner weekend warrior type, if I used my tools professionally I don’t know that I’d want to depend on Ryobi, but they’re more than adequate for what I need them for.
This factor was why I decided to use Bosch blue cordless. They haven’t changed the battery interface so all the 18v tools are compatible and continue to be. Good to know about Ryobi.
The thing is, when you open up any of these batteries, they all have either standard lithium ion 18650 or 21700 cells and they are all nominally 3.7v/cell. In other words, they are standardised in every way except the interface, which just happens to fit one brand of tool.
I have an old Makita NiMH drill that I’ve converted to use the Bosch batteries. This 25 year old tool can continue to serve me because there’s no such thing as a Bosch electron and that’s what’s so beautiful about the universal laws of physics.
After moving into a house, I decided to buy a small collection of power tools for household work. Batteries were a major consideration. I previously had a 12v DeWalt drill that served me well (still works too), and leaning on that, picked up a kit with a skilsaw, hammer drill, drill/driver, work light, oscillating tool, and a sawsall… all from the 20v line from DeWalt. Since then we added a hedge trimmer, string trimmer and electric mower, all using the same 20v system. We have a small fleet of batteries, which work with all of our tools.
The risk is if DeWalt decides that they’re just going to abruptly stop selling the batteries between now and when we need replacements. If so, I’m sure we’ll have several expensive options to pick from in order to continue to have tools. I don’t think that will happen anytime soon, since all of the batteries we have are compatible with their flex volt thing, which they seem to be happily supporting across their entire ecosystem.
The next tool I’m looking at buying is an impact wrench for some light automotive work; the only power tool type thing I wish that they had, which they currently do not, is a snow blower. If they ever release one that takes the flex volt or 20v “Max” batteries, I’m going to jump at that.
Shoveling snow sucks.
Feels like a snowblower would need a pretty meaty power source, 20V might struggle to cut the mustard. I ended up going with a corded one because I couldn’t face another noisy 2 stroke engine.
I’d be okay with them putting out a wired one, they’re not foreign to making wired appliances. We have a wired shopvac type thing from DeWalt. It works great.
I don’t know about just one thing, but I’d love to see electric tools all use the same battery interface set of specs. It’s like the bad old days of cell phone chargers
That there SHOULD be as many standards as possible!
… why?
The key you need to press to get to bios.
It’s just five options, no?
F2, F8, F11, F5, Hammer?
Esc
Del
Also some laptops will have you push a paperclip into a hole or press some special vendor button (like the “vantage” button or what have you on Lenovo laptops).
Don’t forget Del
Fuck yeah. I can’t believe this isn’t already standard
Sometimes I think about standardized retail packaging. What if there was a set of boxes/containers, and they all stacked together nearly and transported nearly. Could save a lot of time and cost on shipping and shelving and potentially make automation easier
Well, it’s not cardboard, but I am absolutely fascinated by euroboxes.
A europallet is 1200x800mm.
Then there are euroboxes of 800x600mm, 600x400mm, 300x400mm etc.
They are stackable, reusable and recyclable and come in different types. Fully enclosed, with lid, with grid walls etc.
Machinists use them as toolboxes, bakers to transport bread and veggie vendors stack have their products on the market in euroboxes.
Interesting! Here’s a Wikipedia link for anyone wanting to know a little more
