Post #1396938 · Elektrine

2024-06-11 19:41 UTC

@skaverat This is one of the things that's personally quite baffling to me! Outside of folks with disabilities, I cannot understand what convenience the pods are actually giving people. The box of powder is trivial to use - just grab it and pour. I know brains are different and some people will fixate (and stress) over how much to use, but I feel like it can't be such a large percentage of the population as to have effectively nuked the powder market.

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@TechConnectify@mas.to 2024-06-11 19:42

@skaverat It just smells way too much like the detergent manufacturers discovering a way to make more money by A) preventing people from stretching their detergent and B) inventing marketing gimmicks which make people believe their products are magic.

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@skaverat@skaverat.net 2024-06-11 19:44

@TechConnectify for me it was just that I bought random dishwasher tabs when I got my own dish washer, and never had any real problem with them. So didn't really have any real reason to try out powder. Plus, childhood memories of *washing*machines powder randomly leaving clumps of powder in your clothes from time to time also probably kept me away from it, I think

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@Phyxis@pounced-on.me 2024-06-13 02:45

@skaverat @TechConnectify The one upside I've found is that the individual pods, being slathered in PVA, are somewhat less hygroscopic at 50% RH conditions. Don't run dishwasher often, so boxed granules would slowly become a box of rock. Gel or pods avoids that.

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