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This community covers both asshole designs and crappy designs.

Discuss manifestations of asshole designs whereby the design is deliberately anti-consumer. Manifestations of crappy designs are also welcome in this forum, which reflect poor designs that are not borne out of deliberate contempt for the consumer.

Use of these prefixes is encouraged:

[a/d] ← you are confident that the design is an Asshole Design

[c/d] ← you are confident that the design is a Crappy Design

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There are other communities for Asshole Designs and Crappy Designs, but all of the communities at the time of our founding exist only on centralized instances. We are currently the sole decentralized community of this kind. (update: another crappy design forum was recently found in the free-world-- see related communities above)

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[c/d?] Brita pitchers that take a “maxtra” filter (slrpnk.net)

submitted 1 month ago by activistPnk@slrpnk.net to c/asshole_crappy_design@slrpnk.net

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I bought a 2nd-hand Brita water pitcher that looks like that in the pic. It has a spinning plastic mechanism that mates with the cartridge. I have another Brita pitcher that is almost identical but it does not have the spinning mechanism. The pinning plastic bit block water when at rest. Water can only plass when a filter is inserted because a genuine “Brita”™ filter has a grooved cylinder that forces the plastic to spin ~45° and unblock the outlet.

The affordable generic Brita knock-off filters lack the grooved cylinder, so they are incompatible with one of my pitchers.

I’m not sure this is a crappy design. It seems to not be documented (according to my attempt at searching). Is there a sensible reason for having the spinning mechanism? It cannot be to fuck with the generic cartridge producers because it seems Brita abandoned that design themselves.

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[–] Redfox8@mander.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

I'm not aware of whole house systems as you only generally take drinking water from the kitchen taps, so you can either fit a side tap like linked or one that feeds into the main sink tap. You only need to change the filter each 6-12 months. I've found it far less FAFF than a jug. It is a little slow compared to the main tap but it's an acceptable a trade off.

https://www.wickes.co.uk/BWT-Inline-Drinking-Water-Filter-Kit/p/149680

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