Hacker News: azalinhttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=azalinHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:30:14 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by azalin in "Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier"]]>BOLTR is ok if you take the review with a huge grain of salt, basically just as a proxy for having and disassembling the tool yourself. I largely disregard whatever AvE says and make my own conclusions from what is visually apparent. His standards for what makes a good tool are too focused on physical resilience - basically "if it can't survive being dropped into a mine shaft and beaten to hell, it's shit" is unrealistic for most people. Plus there's been reviews where he broke the tool during disassembly and reassembly and then blamed poor performance on the tool itself - the Ryobi Airstrike staplers come to mind.

This also goes to the other themes in the discussion here; there's few to no sources with singularly "good" reviews anymore, at best you have to synthesize from multiple reviewers and at times hope you can buy from a merchant with a good return policy.

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