Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoWhat is something that desperately needs to be standardized?message-squaremessage-square152fedilinkarrow-up1119arrow-down13
arrow-up1116arrow-down1message-squareWhat is something that desperately needs to be standardized?Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square152fedilink
minus-squareNaibofTabr@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·2 days agoBest of luck with that mate. Do you know how many different cross-shaped drives there are already? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives And if you really want to get upset about confused standards you should read the section of the Talk page about why JIS B 1012 was removed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_screw_drives They ARE distinct from standard Phillips, and posidrive. If one tries to use Phillips on them you’ll likely strip the head. […] As discussed, the previous paragraph was wrong and (as of now) uncited, so it was removed. No information is better than wrong information.
minus-squarecannedtuna@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·2 days agoMeanwhile, there’s Robertson, the superior 4 pointed driver over Phillips.
Best of luck with that mate. Do you know how many different cross-shaped drives there are already?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_screw_drives
And if you really want to get upset about confused standards you should read the section of the Talk page about why JIS B 1012 was removed:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:List_of_screw_drives
Meanwhile, there’s Robertson, the superior 4 pointed driver over Phillips.