c/mildlyinteresting · by shish_mish@lemmy.world · 113d

Wigan woman retains Flatpack World Championship title

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp3p5w4l4vno

Who knew there was a championship in flat packing.

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33 Comments

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 56 pts · 113d (8 replies)

Flatpack World Championship

WTF is this? Is she some world leading package manager?

and broken her personal best assembly time in the process.

I guess it must be, they probably mean compiler and not assembler, did she overclock her computer? Or use specially compiled compilers?

building a bedside table in eight minutes 20 seconds.

Goddammit! What does that have to do with "flatpack"?

_haha_oh_wow_@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 113d (1 reply)

I came here to make the joke you already made and you made it better so I'll just show myself out.

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 113d

I'm guessing bedside table is slang for a small table, and to be honest taking more than 8 minutes to build a small table isn't very impressive for any app.

otter@lemmy.ca · 13 pts · 113d (1 reply)

Flatpack vs flatpak

lagoon8622@sh.itjust.works · 22 pts · 113d

Ahh, so there's a fork? Hadn't heard of it

Maiq@piefed.social · 7 pts · 113d

I did a flatpak list but it didn't show much about her. Guess I'll never know.

mech@feddit.org · 3 pts · 113d (1 reply)

Flatpack furniture is furniture that comes packed flat.
The most well-known producer is Ikea.

Freeposity@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 110d

It's so weird that the article just assumed everyone would know what a flatpack was. With all the talk of Lego, I assumed it was a Lego-like toy.

Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 113d

IKEA world championship.

What a time to be alive.

paraphrand@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 113d (1 reply)

Oh snap.

sem@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 113d

Illegal!

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 18 pts · 113d

FWIW this is about speed-assembling flatpack furniture.

Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club · 14 pts · 113d

A woman has retained her title as Flatpack World Champion and broken her personal best assembly time in the process.

eight minutes 20 seconds

Coding anything in assembly in under 9 minutes is incredible, much less publishing a full app!

CreateProblems@corndog.social · 4 pts · 112d

I love assembling furniture, I am so glad to hear there's a competition. Sign me up!

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 113d (14 replies)

I wonder how they standardize. The difference between IKEA and not-IKEA from a familiarity as well as design standpoint can be significant. IKEA is easy, but I’ve had some alternative companies that don’t put any care into how things go together.

FrChazzz@lemmus.org · 9 pts · 113d (9 replies)

I'm amused when TV or comedians make jokes about IKEA furniture being difficult to build. Like, are they confusing IKEA with some dorm furniture they bought at Wal-Mart? Because that junk is sometimes borderline: "make it look like the picture on the box"

Dojan@pawb.social · 3 pts · 113d (8 replies)

I bought a bed a few years back. It was a continental with a headboard. It had a three step instruction with stick figures on it. Essentially, place headboard against wall, push bed against headboard, you’re done, be happy.

Awful bed, but the instructions were the best I’ve ever had. They felt like malicious compliance.

victorz@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 113d (7 replies)

Awful bed

IKEA in a nutshell. Simple to assemble, awful to keep. Terrible results.

Dojan@pawb.social · 4 pts · 113d (6 replies)

It was not IKEA actually. Fancy furniture store.

victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 112d (5 replies)

I still maintain that IKEA is like that though. 😔

Dojan@pawb.social · 2 pts · 112d (4 replies)

Poor quality? Yeah. It’s cardboard, mostly.

Their hallmark isn’t quality though, it’s affordability.

victorz@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 112d

Agreed, and I'm effing done with it. I'd rather pay more for something I do want than less for something I don't want.

victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 113d (2 replies)

Dude IKEA doesn't care how things go together.

Every fucking time I buy IKEA shit it always comes out wiggly wobbly or something didn't quite align right or this or that or the other. It's cheap garbage.

Relatively recently decided to splurge on a bunk bed for the kids from a real furniture store that costs a little more.

Everything was tight, bro. Fit so good, and everything was just so sturdy and steady. Loved building it together with the wife as well. It was quite enjoyable.

I hate IKEA. Greetings from its motherland. 🙍‍♂️

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 113d (1 reply)

That’s the complete opposite of my experience

Yeah, ikea is cheap and doesn’t last. But double the price and it feels the same (wobbly), except the holes are 1mm from where they should be.

victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 112d

Must be some shitty furniture companies then. Should be a matter of paying more to get higher quality.

A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 1 pts · 112d

I was thinking that too. Honestly I think it was all IKEA (but they're not allowed to say that), unless the UK has some major competitor.

username_1@programming.dev · 2 pts · 113d

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ninjabard@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 113d

I hope she celebrated with a Wigan Slappy.